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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 154, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0047463
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-0847356, CHE-1464416]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship [00039202]
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FTIR and 2D-IR spectroscopies were used to study PDMS cross-linked elastomer films, showing that spectral line shapes were greatly influenced by heterogeneity, with only slight differences between heterogeneous and homogeneous dynamics even with significant macroscopic changes in different systems.
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and two-dimensional IR (2D-IR) spectroscopies were applied to polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) cross-linked elastomer films. The vibrational probe for the systems studied was a silicon hydride mode that was covalently bound to the polymer chains. The structure and dynamics reported by this mode were measured in response to a wide range of chemical and physical perturbations, including elevated curing temperature, increased curing agent concentration, mechanical compression, and cooling to near the glass transition temperature. The FTIR spectra were found to be relatively insensitive to all of these perturbations, and 2D-IR spectroscopy revealed that this was due to the overwhelming influence of heterogeneity on the spectral line shape. Surprisingly, the deconvoluted spectral line shapes showed that there were only slight differences in the heterogeneous and homogeneous dynamics even with the drastic macroscopic changes occurring in different systems. In the context of modeling polymer behavior, the results confirm that dynamics on the ultrafast time scale need not be included to properly model PDMS elasticity.
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