RECOVERY OF AMORPHOUS POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) FILM UNIAXIALLY DRAWN JUST BELOW THE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE

• 来源期刊: 高分子科学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2000,（1）
• 页码范围: 69-75
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Isothermal recovery in the macroscopic length of homogeneously deformed specimens of amorphous poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) film sample uniaxially drawn at 69℃ to the draw ratios λ0 = 1.26～2.20 were studied at temperatures around the glass transition temperature (Tg = 73 ℃). Experimental results indicate that the length recovery took place in two distinct steps: a fast first step (fast relaxation) followed by a slow second step (slow relaxation). The relaxation processes were accompanied by the reversion of trans-conformers (1340 cm-1) to gauche, and the dichroic function of the 1340 cm-1 band characterizing the segmental orientation along the chain direction decreased to a very low value at the end of the fast relaxation. This fact led us to assign the fast relaxation as the segmental orientation while the slow relaxation as relaxation of the global chain orientation. It was found that the slow relaxation follows a single exponential function, with relaxation times strongly dependent on the temperature resembling the glass transition process. The fast relaxation does not follow a single exponential decay, presumably a distribution of relaxation times is involved.