Effect of low-temperature physical aging on the dynamic transitions of atactic polystyrene in the glassy state

Kalouda Grigoriadi; Tristan Putzeys; Michael Wübbenhorst; Lambert van Breemen; Patrick Anderson; Markus Hütter

doi:10.1002/polb.24883

Effect of low-temperature physical aging on the dynamic transitions of atactic polystyrene in the glassy state

Kalouda Grigoriadi, Tristan Putzeys, Michael Wübbenhorst, Lambert van Breemen, Patrick Anderson, Markus Hütter (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

The local and cooperative dynamics of atactic PS (a-PS) were studied by broadband dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (BDRS) and attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). The a-PS has been subjected to thermal rejuvenation and subsequent quenching, short-term aging (6 weeks), and long-term aging (1 year) at ambient conditions. Where for the rejuvenated sample only an α- and a γ-relaxation is observed, short-term aging results in an additional β*-relaxation that merges with the α-relaxation at longer aging times. The γ-relaxation is increasing in intensity and activation energy during aging. The α-process shows no spectral changes and shift in the relaxation time upon aging. This may be attributed to a possible erasure of history of the material during the temperature-sweep mode measurement. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) results suggest that the energetically favorable trans-trans (tt) conformers are increased in population with aging.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1394-1401
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
Volume	57
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/polb.24883
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2019

Keywords

physical ageing
glassy polymers
atactic polystyrene
ageing
amorphous
polystyrene
dielectric properties
FT-IR
annealing
molecular dynamics
atactic

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Effect of low-temperature physical aging on the dynamic transitions of atactic polystyrene in the glassy state. / Grigoriadi, Kalouda; Putzeys, Tristan; Wübbenhorst, Michael; van Breemen, Lambert ; Anderson, Patrick ; Hütter, Markus (Corresponding author).

In: Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol. 57, No. 20, 15.10.2019, p. 1394-1401.

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