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Correlated and cooperative motions in segmental relaxation: Influence of constitutive unit weight and intermolecular
Bidur Rijal1, Jorge Arturo Soto Puente1,2, Bienvenu Atawa1
1Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, LECAP, 76000 Rouen, France.
Abstract:
This work clarifies the notion of correlated and cooperative motions appearing during the α-relaxation process through the role of the molecular weight of the constitutive units and of the interchain dipolar interactions. By studying amorphous copolymers of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) with different vinyl acetate contents, we show that the correlated motions are not sensitive to the interchain dipolar interactions, in contrast to the cooperative motions, which increase with a strengthening of the intermolecular interactions for this sample family. Concerning the influence of the molecular weight m_{0}, the notion of "correlated motions" seems to be equivalent to the notion of "cooperative motions" only for low m_{0} systems.
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