Scaling out the density dependence of the α relaxation in glass-forming polymers

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2004 EDP Sciences
, , Citation C. Alba-Simionesco et al 2004 EPL 68 58 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2004-10214-6

0295-5075/68/1/58

Abstract

We show that the density and temperature dependences of the α-relaxation time of several glass-forming polymers can be described through a single scaling variable X = e(ρ)/T, where e(ρ) is well fitted by a power law ρx, x being a species-specific parameter. This implies that "fragility" is an intrinsic, density-independent property of a glass-former characterizing its super-Arrhenius slowing-down of relaxations, and it leads us to propose a modification of the celebrated Angell plot.

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