Dielectric relaxation and relationships of local molecular mobility in linear and comb-like thermotropic polymers

Abstract

The dielectric behavior of several thermotropic linear and comb-like polymers with flexible spacers and mesogenic fragments with different structure has been studied in a frequency range from 60 Hz to 1 MHz in the bulk state (below the glass transition temperature). Two regions of dipole relaxation caused by local mobility were detected. It was shown that the relaxation parameters of the first process virtually do not change with increasing spacer length and have similar values in polymers with different structure. In the case of the second process, in increase in spacer length considerably increases the mobility of kinetic elements.