Free volume expansion and nanofoaming of supercritical carbon dioxide treated polystyrene
Toshitaka Oka1, Kenji Ito, Chunqing He
1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan. t-oka@aist.go.jp
Abstract:
Free volume of polystyrene films treated with supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO 2) were examined by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. Variation of the free volume sizes after the SCCO 2 treatment due to the release of trapped CO 2 and structural relaxation of the polymer was observed. After 500 h from the depressurization, the free volume of the treated films free from CO 2 was approximately 0.306 nm in radius and much larger than that of the untreated films of approximately 0.295 nm in radius due to the freezing of the swollen structure caused by the large solubility of CO 2.
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