Reducing the Gap between the Activation Energy Measured in the Liquid and the Glassy States by Adding a Plasticizer to Polylactide - Archive ouverte HAL
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Reducing the Gap between the Activation Energy Measured in the Liquid and the Glassy States by Adding a Plasticizer to Polylactide

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The kinetic fragility of a glass-forming liquid is an important parameter to describe its molecular mobility. In most polymers, the kinetic fragility index obtained from the glassy state by thermally stimulated depolarization current is lower than the one determined in the liquid-like state by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy, as shown in this work for neat polylactide (PLA). When PLA is plasticized to different extents, the fragility calculated in the liquid-like state progressively decreases, until approaching the value of fragility calculated from the glass, which on the other hand remains constant with plasticization. Using the cooperative rearranging region (CRR) concept, it is shown that the decrease of the fragility in the liquid-like state is concomitant with a decrease of the cooperativity length. By splitting the fragility calculated in the liquid, in two contributions: volume and energetic, respectively, dependent and independent on cooperativity, we observed that the slope of the fragility plot in the glass is equivalent to the energetic contribution of the fragility in the liquid. It is then deduced that the difference between the slopes of the relaxation time dependence calculated in both glass and liquid is an indicator of the cooperative character of the segmental relaxation when transiting from liquid to glass. As the main structural consequence of plasticization lies in the decrease of interchain weak bonds, it is assumed that these bonds drive the size of the CRR. In contrast, the dynamics in the glass are independent on plasticization structural effects.
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hal-02061741 , version 1 (02-04-2019)

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Steven Araujo, Nicolas Delpouve, Alexandre Dhotel, Sandra Domenek, Alain Guinault, et al.. Reducing the Gap between the Activation Energy Measured in the Liquid and the Glassy States by Adding a Plasticizer to Polylactide. ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (12), pp.17092-17099. ⟨10.1021/acsomega.8b02474⟩. ⟨hal-02061741⟩
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