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Studies of thermal transition behavior in plasticized poly(vinyl butyral‐ co ‐vinyl alcohol) with solid‐state NMR and thermal analysis techniques
Author(s) -
Parker A. A.,
Hedrick D. P.,
Ritchey W. M.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1992.070460210
Subject(s) - vinyl alcohol , differential scanning calorimetry , glass transition , materials science , dynamic mechanical analysis , thermal analysis , polymer chemistry , arrhenius equation , chemistry , activation energy , thermal , thermodynamics , composite material , polymer , physics
Abstract Samples of plasticized poly(vinyl butyral‐ co ‐vinyl alcohol) (PVB) are found to exhibit multiple thermal transitions as observed by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Arrhenius plots using DSC and DMA data suggest that two of the transitions are glass‐type ones. Variable temperature solid‐state 13 C‐NMR experiments show a temperature‐dependent line‐broadening pattern for all PVB backbone carbons with maximum broadening at 55°C or at about 50°C above the second‐order‐type transitions α 1 and α 2 as measured by DSC. Using Arrhenius plots, the NMR transition is found to best correlate with α 1 , which is consistent with glass transition behavior. The solid‐state NMR spectra also show that vinyl alcohol tacticity remains unresolved up to a temperature of about 95°C, beyond which line narrowing begins to occur. High‐temperature thermal transitions are also observed by DSC and DMA, which suggest that the onset of motion involving vinyl alcohol sequences may be responsible for these transitions.