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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 90, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2749842
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The relaxation dynamics in amorphous polystyrene and blends with polyethylene oxide (PEO) has been investigated by low-frequency anelastic spectroscopy. The dissipation spectra exhibit two relaxation peaks, corresponding to the alpha relaxation and the alpha(') (liquid-liquid) transition, respectively. The origin of the liquid-liquid transition is the inhomogeneity in the melt due to the chain clustering. With increasing PEO content, the peak temperature T-alpha' and the relaxation strength Delta(alpha') decrease, while T-alpha' decreases and Delta(alpha) increases. Moreover, the fractional free volume sharply increases above T-alpha' for all the samples, due to the bigger value of thermal expansion coefficient alpha(f). (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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