Direct rheological evidence of monomer density reequilibration for entangled polymer melts
Macromolecules, ISSN: 0024-9297, Vol: 40, Issue: 8, Page: 2946-2954
2007
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The monomer density reequilibration relaxation is directly observed for the first time from the linear viscoelastic data of very high molecular weight linear polybutadiene, polyisobutene and polyisoprene. We use a simple procedure of subtracting contributions of the high-frequency Rouse-like modes from the experimental curves. The stress decay of the monomer redistribution process is characterized by a single exponential (Maxwell form), and the observed relaxation strength is one-fourth of the plateau modulus. Moreover, the characteristic relaxation time is close to the equilibration time τ of an entanglement segment. The observed reequilibration dynamics appears to be independent of polymer species. The high-frequency relaxation modes can be reconstructed as a superposition of power law Rouse-like dynamics and Maxwell monomer reequilibration. The dynamic moduli curves calculated in this way show excellent agreement with the experimental results in the high-frequency region. We further propose a possible "experimental definition" for τ. It corresponds to an easily observable cross-point between the extended plateau modulus and the power law region of the loss modulus. © 2007 American Chemical Society.
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