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As we did in the case of relaxation, we now compare the behavior predicted by the Voigt model—and, for that matter, the Maxwell model—with the behavior of actual polymer samples in a creep experiment. Figure 3.12 shows plots of such experiments for two polymers. The graph is on log-log coordinates and should therefore be compared with Fig. 3.11b. The polymers are polystyrene of molecular weight 6.0 X 10 at a reduced temperature of 100°C and cis-poly-isoprene of molecular weight 6.2 X 10 at a reduced temperature of -30°C. 

Figure 3.16 Some experimental dynamic components, (a) Storage and loss compliance of crystalline polytetrafluoroethylene measured at different frequencies. [Data from E. R. Fitzgerald, J. Chem. Phys. 27 1 180 (1957).] (b) Storage modulus and loss tangent of poly(methyl acrylate) and poly(methyl methacrylate) measured at different temperatures. (Reprinted with permission from J. Heijboer in D. J. Meier (Ed.), Molecular Basis of Transitions and Relaxations, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1978.)...

The time-temperature superpositioning principle was applied f to the maximum in dielectric loss factors measured on poly(vinyl acetate). Data collected at different temperatures were shifted to match at Tg = 28 C. The shift factors for the frequency (in hertz) at the maximum were found to obey the WLF equation in the following form log co + 6.9 = [ 19.6(T -28)]/[42 (T - 28)]. Estimate the fractional free volume at Tg and a. for the free volume from these data. Recalling from Chap. 3 that the loss factor for the mechanical properties occurs at cor = 1, estimate the relaxation time for poly(vinyl acetate) at 40 and 28.5 C. 

Finally, we want to describe two examples of those isolated polymer chains in a sea of solvent molecules. Polymer chains relax considerably faster in a low-molecular-weight solvent than in melts or glasses. Yet it is still almost impossible to study the conformational relaxation of a polymer chain in solvent using atomistic simulations. However, in many cases it is not the polymer dynamics that is of interest but the structure and dynamics of the solvent around the chain. Often, the first and maybe second solvation shells dominate the solvation. Two recent examples of aqueous and non-aqueous polymer solutions should illustrate this poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) [31]... 

A number of examples have been studied in recent years, including liquid sulfur [1-3,8] and selenium [4], poly(o -methylstyrene) [5-7], polymer-like micelles [9,11], and protein filaments [12]. Besides their importance for applications, EP pose a number of basic questions concerning phase transformations, conformational and relaxational properties, dynamics, etc. which distinguish them from conventional dead polymers in which the reaction of polymerization has been terminated. EP motivate intensive research activity in this field at present. 

M. Scheidlcr, U. Lcmmer, R. Kersting, S. Karg, W. Riess, B. Clcve, R.F. Malm, H. Kurz, H. Bassler, E. O. Cbbcl, P. Thomas, Monte Carlo study of picosecond excilon relaxation and dissociation in poly(pheny)cncvinylcne), Phys. Rev. B, 1996. 54,. 553ft. 

W. Graupner, G. Leising. G. Lanzani, M. Nisoli. S. De Silvcstri, U. Scherf, Femtosecond relaxation of pholoexcilalions in a poly(para-pheuy (cueHype ladder polymer Phys. Rev Lett. 1996, 76, 847. 

Data of Figs 8-10 give a simple pattern of yield stress being independent of the viscosity of monodisperse polymers, indicating that yield stress is determined only by the structure of a filler. However, it turned out that if we go over from mono- to poly-disperse polymers of one row, yield stress estimated by a flow curve, changes by tens of times [7]. This result is quite unexpected and can be explained only presumably by some qualitative considerations. Since in case of both mono- and polydisperse polymers yield stress is independent of viscosity, probably, the decisive role is played by more fine effects. Here, possibly, the same qualitative differences of relaxation properties of mono- and polydisperse polymers, which are known as regards their viscosity properties [1]. 

When rfc = 0, the polymeric structure is considered to be open enough (i = 0) that any subsequent oxidation will not occur under conformational relaxation control, hence P = 1. Every polymeric chain at the poly-mer/solution interface acts as a nucleus a planar oxidation front is formed that advances from the solution interface toward the metal/polymer interface at the diffusion rate. 

FIGURE 24.4 Master curves of the local segmental relaxation times for 1,4-polyisoprene (-y = 3.0) 1,2-polybutadiene (7=1.9) polyvinylmethylether (7 = 2.55) polyvinylacetate (7 = 2.6) polypropylene glycol (7 = 2.5) polyoxybutylene (7 = 2.8) poly(phenyl glycidyl ether)-co-formaldehyde (7 = 3.5) polymethylphe-nylsiloxane (7 = 5.6) poly[(o-cresyl glycidyl ether)-co-formaldehyde] (7 = 3.3) and polymethyltolylsiloxane (PMTS) (7 = 5.0) [15 and references therein]. Each symbol for a given material represents a different condition of T and P. 

The synthesis of organotin oligosteracrylate i.e. dimethylstannyl dimethacrylate, and the production of the cross-linked homopolymers on its basis have been reported. Morphology, mechanical and relaxation properties of poly(dimethyl-stannyl dimethacrylate) have been investigated 67). 

HB Hopfenberg, L Nicolais, E Drioli. Relaxation controlled (case II) transport of lower alcohols in poly(methyl methacrylate). Polymer 17 195-198, 1976. 

The presence of four kinds of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) observable nuclei ( H, uB, 13C, and 29Si) allows poly(m-carborane-siloxane) to be readily investigated using NMR spectroscopy. In addition, H spin-echo NMR relaxation techniques can provide an insight into polymer segmental chain dynamics and therefore useful information on material viscoelastic characteristics. 

For low molecular weight Gd111 chelates, it is mainly fast rotation that limits proton relaxivity (Figure 3). In order to circumvent this problem, Gd111 poly(aminocarboxylates) have been linked via either covalent or noncovalent interactions to different macromolecules. 

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