Étude de l’orientation par déformation de mélanges de polymères à base de polystyrène
Planar array infrared spectroscopy (PAIRS) was used to study the fast deformation and relaxation of polymers at s draw rate of 46 cm/s, giving millisecond time resolution. Complementary measurements by polarization modulation infrared structural absorbance spectroscopy (PM-IRSAS) were conducted to probe slower deformations (0.16 to 1.6 cm/s) with a time resolution of a few hundreds of milliseconds. Our study allowed the observation, after fast deformation, of a new relaxation time (τ0), on the order of tens of milliseconds, which was not predicted in the literature.   The aim of this work is to quantify this new relaxation time and to determine how it is affected by molecular weight, temperature, and blending. Measurements performed on polystyrene (PS) with two different molecular weights (210 and 900 kg/mol) at various temperatures revealed that the new relaxation time is independent of the molecular weight, but that it varies with temperature. Measurements performed on film blends of PS900 with deuterated PS of low molecular weight (21 kg/mol) indicated that this time is unaffected by blending and that the PS chain length has no impact on it. Measurements on films of PS blended with poly(vinyl methyl ether) (PVME) revealed that it is identical for pure PS and for PS in the blends, but that it is shorter, on the order of few milliseconds, for PVME.
Orientation Relaxation Orientation Deformation Relaxation Infrared spectroscopy Polymer blends Planar array infrared spectroscopy