A Method To Explore Three Dimensional Absorption In Polymers

Leslie J. Fina; Jack L. Koenig

doi:10.1117/12.970923

20 December 1985 A Method To Explore Three Dimensional Absorption In Polymers

Leslie J. Fina, Jack L. Koenig

Proceedings Volume 0553, Fourier and Computerized Infrared Spectroscopy; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.970923
Event: 1985 International Conference on Fourier and Computerized Infrared Spectroscopy, 1985, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

Any processing technique induces orientation in a polymeric system. We have developed techniques originally explored by R. Zbinden spectroscopy Di Hical Polymers, Academic Press, N.Y.,1964) and P.G.Schmidt (J.Polym.Sci. Al, 1271, 1963) to study the trichroic orientation effects. Using a tilting procedure the principal axes of the absorption ellipsoid are calculated and the isotropic-equivalent or structure factor (Ao) spectrum is found. With trichroic information the assumption of transverse isotropy in one-way drawn samples is no longer necessary and, in fact, is shown to be invalid in some cases. The method is applied to two polymer systems, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). In PET the rotational isomeric content in the crystal and amorphous phases is characterized from the Ao spectra by the method of least-squares curve-fitting. In PVDF, frequency shifts in the plane perpendicular to the draw direction are observed indicating single crystal-like orientation behavior.

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Leslie J. Fina and Jack L. Koenig "A Method To Explore Three Dimensional Absorption In Polymers", Proc. SPIE 0553, Fourier and Computerized Infrared Spectroscopy, (20 December 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.970923

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