Abstract
When investigating amorphous materials, i.e. polymers and glasses, by Thermally Stimulated Depolarization Current (TSDC), strong changes in relaxation rates at the glass transition T/sub g/ are frequently explained in terms of a physical singularity of the molecular motions. We show that the unexpected values for activation energy and pre-exponential factor obtained around T/sub g/ from the analysis of TSDC signal, result from the misuse of the Arrhenius law for treating the experimental data obtained in non-stationary experimental conditions. A simple model based on a time dependent configurational entropy is therefore proposed to explain the experimental behavior. Then, the pronounced variation of the effective activation energy appears as a dynamic signature of a simple entropy relaxation associated to non-stationary conditions.
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