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Influence of Thermal History on the Glass Transition of Poly(Phenylene Sulfide)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

Pengtao Huo
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
Peggy Cebe
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
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Abstract

PPS is increasingly interesting as a high performance polymer material. Recently, Cheng, et al. [1] reported observation of rigid amorphous phase (RAP) in the amorphous phase of semicrystalline PPS using differential scanning calorimetry. Using the heat of fusion from DSC to obtain the degree of crystallinity of the semicrystalline samples, a simple rule of mixtures was applied to calculate the change in heat capacity step. The heat capacity decreased much more than could be accounted for using the measured crystallinity. Thus, these authors assumed the existence of a rigid amorphous phase which did not become liquid-like at Tg. The ratio of heat capacity step at Tg of semicrystalline PPS to that of the purely amorphous polymer was used to find the fraction of amorphous chains that do become liquid-like at Tg. The amount of RAP was then obtained by assuming a three phase model.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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