Transformation glass transition temperature

Eig. 15. Time—temperature transformation ia a thin-phase change layer during recording/reading/erasiug (3,105). C = Crystalline phase A = amorphous phase = melting temperature = glass-transition temperature RT = room temperature. 

Glass-Transition Temperature. When a typical Hquid is cooled, its volume decreases slowly until the melting point, T, where the volume decreases abmpdy as the Hquid is transformed into a crystalline soHd. This phenomenon is illustrated by the line ABCD in Eigure 3. If a glass forming Hquid is cooled below (B in Eig. 3) without the occurrence of crystallization, it is considered to be a supercooled Hquid until the glass-transition temperature, T, is reached. At temperatures below T, the material is a soHd. 

Focusing attention on PTEB, it has been found that, similar to the case of PDTMB, the mesophase experiences a very slow transformation into the crystal. Thus, only the isotropization is observed in a sample freshly cooled from the melt [27]. However, after a long time at room temperature, the transformation mesophase-crystal is produced, owing to a glass transition temperature of about 14°C. Moreover, several endotherms were obtained before the final isotropization for a sample of PTEB annealed at 85°C for 12 days, i.e., PTEB shows enantiotropic behavior. The different endotherms may arise from polymorphism or melting-recrystallization phenomena [30]. 

The all-important difference between the friction properties of elastomers and hard solids is its strong dependence on temperature and speed, demonstrating that these materials are not only elastic, but also have a strong viscous component. Both these aspects are important to achieve a high friction capability. The most obvious effect is that temperature and speed are related through the so-called WLF transformation. For simple systems with a well-defined glass transition temperature the transform is obeyed very accurately. Even for complex polymer blends the transform dominates the behavior deviations are quite small. 

The lower limit of the elastic range, the glass transition temperature, can be easily determined by refractometric, volumetric, or other well known methods. The upper limit suffers from an exact definition the transition from the fixed liquid to the liquid state occurs without transformation. But as the viscosity decreases exponentially with the temperature it is very convenient to define a 1 flow-temperature by penetrometer measurements. If the rate of temperature rise is kept constant, this temperature is reproducible within 1° or 2°C. The penetrometer indicates a temperature where macroscopically one would call the substance liquid. ... 

A glass transition temperature (Tg) is the temperature at which polymer is transformed from the glassy state to a rubbery state. The T values observed for polyrotaxanes might differ from the starting backbone if only one phase is formed, i.e., when the cyclic is compatible with the backbone. If the cyclic is immiscible with the backbone, two phases corresponding to two components might be formed. For these polyrotaxanes, two Te values might be observed if both components are amorphous. 

Poly(chalcones) (183), which themselves are the products of Knoevenagel condensation of aromatic dialdehydes and diacetyl compounds, have been transformed into polylpyrazo-lines) (185) by reaction with phenylhydrazine (184) (72MI11107). The reaction (Scheme 88) was conveniently conducted in excess phenylhydrazine and yielded polymers which were described as being brilliantly fluorescent in solution. The poly(pyrazolines) (185) exhibited glass transition temperatures between 150 and 210 °C and were stable, in some cases, up to 630 °C. 

Fig. 6. Specific volume pressure curves for the l.c. polymer shown in Fig. 5. Thin dashed lines pressure dependence of the phase transformation temperatures l.c. to isotropic, Tc, and the glass transition temperatures, T , full line specific volume-temperature cut at 2000 bar (isothermal measurements)...

So far we have not considered the influence of the constitution of the polymer main chain on the formation of the nematic phase. If the same mesogenic group is linked to different backbones, the nematic phase can be preserved, as shown for one example in Table 3. Owing to the different flexibilities of the backbones, the nematic state is shifted with respect to the temperature. With falling flexibility of the main chain, as indicated by the increasing glass transition temperature, the phase transformation temperatures nematic to isotropic are shifted towards higher temperatures. This clearly indicates that the restriction of motions, due to the polymer-fixation, directly reflects on the phase transformation temperature. If this restriction... 

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