Glass Transition of Atactic Polystyrene byOrtho‐Positronium Decay
作者:
J. R. Stevens,
A. C. Mao,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Physics
(AIP Available online 1970)
卷期:
Volume 41,
issue 11
页码: 4273-4275
ISSN:0021-8979
年代: 1970
DOI:10.1063/1.1658456
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
In solid polymers the mean lifetime &tgr;2ofortho‐positronium annihilating by pickoff depends upon the free volume. &tgr;2has been measured for five samples of relatively monodisperse atactic polystyrene over a temperature range from room temperature to 120°C. The number average molecular weight of the samples ranged from 50 100 to 640 000. For each sample the variation of &tgr;2with temperature indicated a glass transition about 13 deg below that measured on a differential scanning colorimeter. An increase in the glass transition temperature with molecular weight was observed. The &tgr;2lifetime, which depends upon the overlap of the positron component of theortho‐positronium atom with the lattice wavefunction, seems to be very sensitive to the cooperative motion about the chain axis which is associated with the glass transition.
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