Second-Order Transition Temperature and Fiber Properties

1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
Tryggve Eeg-Olofsson
1955 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Henderson ◽  
L. A. McLeod

Abstract The second-order transition temperatures of plasticized butadiene-styrene copolymers have been measured by dilatometric techniques. In a series of ester plasticizers, the ability of a given plasticizer to depress the second-order transition temperature of the polymer is related to the swelling effect of the plasticizer on the polymer. The special case of a crystallizing plasticizer (dibutyl sebacate) has been discussed. Common petroleum plasticizers do not appear to behave in a similar manner. The change of coefficient of expansion of the ester-plasticized copolymers is related to the measured transition temperature of the blend.


1953 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Gordon ◽  
James S. Taylor

Abstract Theoretical and practical evidence is put forward to show that copolymers can be treated like solutions of small molecules in the interpretation of packing phenomena, and that ideal volume-additivity of the repeating units in copolymers is frequently realized. On this basis equations are derived for predicting θ, the second-order transition temperature, of binary copolymers from the two second-order transition temperatures of the pure polymers and their coefficients of expansion in the glassy and rubbery states. Previous mechanistic theories of the second-order transition temperature of such copolymers are thus superseded by a general reduction of the problem to the mechanism of thermal expansion. Practical applications to the choice of monomers in producing synthetic rubbers are outlined, and attention is drawn to the importance of second-order transitions in kinetic measurements on the reactions of polymers.


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