Heat capacity measurements and modeling of polystyrene glass transition in a wide range of cooling ratesстатья
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Аннотация:Polymers are known to be good glass formers, allowing one to study glass transition effects as well as to verify the applicability of various theoretical models. In this work experimental and theoretical investigations of glass transition of atactic polystyrene (PS) in a broad range of cooling rates (5•10-6-2 K/s) are presented. Experimentally, the temperature dependence of the excess heat capacity for a PS sample has been measured at the PerkinElmer Pyris 1 DSC. The capability of commonly employed theoretical techniques for Cp modeling to describe the obtained data is considered. It is shown that the extended Tool-Narayanaswamy-Moynihan (TNM) model with Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann-Hesse (VFTH) or Adam-Gibbs (AG) expressions for relaxation time with the common single set of parameters do not fit the experimental data well. Moreover, the values of parameters required to produce an adequate fit of the whole set of heating curves are quite different from their estimates obtained from independent additional experiments. An additional expression for relaxation time is proposed within the Gutzow-Schmelzer (GS) approach for describing the kinetics of glass transition leading to results of similar precision. The obtained results reconfirm the general conclusion that the considered models of glass transition require parameter readjusting for different cooling or heating rates in order to adequately describe the experimental data.