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- Title
Glass-Transition Temperature of Cyclic Polystyrene: A Computational Study.
- Authors
Baljon, Arlette R. C.; Mendoza, Gerardo; Balabaev, N. K.; Lyulin, A. V.
- Abstract
Molecular-dynamics simulations are employed to study the glass transition of cyclic polystyrene melts. Gibbs and DiMarzio's theory predict an increase in glass transition temperature, Tg upon lowering the length of cyclic polymer chains, which is opposite to the well-known trend for linear polymers. Their theory has been confirmed by some experiments; however, others observe a decrease in Tg upon lowering the chain length instead. When volumetric methods are employed to obtain the glass transition temperature in simulated cyclic polystyrene, a slight increase with decreasing cyclic polystyrene chain length is obtained. This increase is more pronounced when glass transition temperatures are obtained from dynamics. Both the glass transition temperature Tg obtained from diffusion data and the ideal glass transition temperature T0 obtained from the decay of the orientational autocorrelation function of the phenyl bond show a clear upturn.
- Subjects
POLYSTYRENE; LINEAR polymers; GLASS transition temperature; GLASS transitions
- Publication
Polymer Science -- Series A, 2021, Vol 63, Issue 3, p356
- ISSN
0965-545X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0965545X21030019