Thermomorphological study of the terahertz lattice modes in polyvinylidene fluoride and high-density polyethylene

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Wietzke, Steffen ; Jansen, Christian ; Reuter, Marco ; Jung, Tilmann ; Hehl, Judith ; Kraft, Dietmar ; Chatterjee, Sangam ; Greiner, Andreas ; Koch, Martin:
Thermomorphological study of the terahertz lattice modes in polyvinylidene fluoride and high-density polyethylene.
In: Applied Physics Letters. Bd. 97 (2010) . - 022901.
ISSN 1077-3118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3462312

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Abstract

Semicrystalline polymers possess a complex morphology comprising both crystalline and amorphous domains. We investigate two representatives from this group, polyvinylidene fluoride and high-density polyethylene, with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. Intriguingly, the thermal gradient of lattice modes arising from the crystalline phase changes at the glass transition. Thus, terahertz spectroscopy can identify the glass transition temperature T(g) even in highly crystalline polymers, where conventional methods such as differential scanning calorimetry fail. Furthermore, these findings provide experimental evidence of the strong interactions between the amorphous and the crystalline domains, as the glass transition is an exclusive feature of the mobile amorphous fraction. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3462312]