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M Mierzwa1, S Pawlus, M Paluch
1Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland. michal.mierzwa@us.edu.pl
Abstract:
The primary alpha and the secondary Johari-Goldstein (JG) beta relaxations of supercooled glass-forming neat epoxy resin and 2-picoline in mixture with tristyrene are monitored by broadband dielectric relaxation spectroscopy at ambient pressure and elevated pressures. For different combinations of pressure and temperature that maintain the alpha-relaxation time constant, the frequency dispersion of the alpha relaxation is unchanged, as previously found in other glass-formers, but remarkably the JG beta-relaxation time remains constant. This is more clear evidence of a strong connection between the alpha- and JG beta-relaxation times, a fact that should be taken into account in the construction of a viable theory of glass transition.
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