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Azimuth Angle Dependence of Polarized Infrared Spectra of Injection-Molded Polyoxymethylene
1Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Nishi-ku, Niigata, Japan.
Abstract:
Injection-molded polyoxymethylene (POM) has molecular chains mainly oriented in the injection direction. We investigated the directional dependence of the polarized infrared reflection and attenuated total reflection spectra by rotating the anisotropic POM sample. Because of the strong absorption and large frequency dispersion of the C-O vibration in the main-chain direction, we found phenomena such as shoulder wing generation that resulted from the mixing of optical responses attributed to the vibration in the main chain and that in the direction perpendicular to the main chain. The spectra of the directional dependence can be explained qualitatively because of the anisotropy of the mode with large frequency dispersion.
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