Enthalpy recovery in semicrystalline polymers
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Constitutive equations are derived for enthalpy recovery in polymeric glasses after thermal jumps. The model is based on the theory of cooperative relaxation in a version of the trapping concept. It is demonstrated that some critical temperature Tcr and some critical degree of crystallinity fcr exist in a semicrystalline polymer above which the energy landscape becomes homogeneous and structural relaxation ceases.
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