Study of the thermal behaviour of alipharomatic polyesters around the glass–rubber transition region by thermomechanical analysis: the mobile and rigid amorphous fraction

Abstract

The objective of this work was the study using thermomechanical analysis (TMA) of a peculiar behaviour, which was observed some years ago, around the glass–rubber transition region in some thermoplastic alipharomatic polyesters. For this purpose a series of nine alipharomatic polyesters was prepared by the two‐stage melt polycondensation method in a glass batch reactor and subjected to TMA in both penetration and expansion mode. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was additionally used and the results are discussed focusing mainly on the first derivative curve of TMA thermograms in the penetration mode. From this curve, which shows two distinct peaks, the first peak could be attributed to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the mobile amorphous fraction, since the value coincides with that obtained from DSC and is due to the abrupt shrinkage of the amorphous part of the sample. The second peak (up to 40 °C higher than Tg) is due most probably to the softening of the rigid amorphous fraction and the passage of the polymeric sample from the glass region to the cold crystallization region. When the sample is more crystalline than amorphous then the first peak is smaller or is completely absent. Copyright © 2006 Society of Chemical Industry

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