Abstract
AbstractFive polypropylene films were prepared having different crystallinity and morphology, the latter having been modified by stretching. They were colored with azo dyes XC6H4NNC6H4N(C2H5)2 (where XH, OCH3, CN, and NO2). The kinetics of the thermal cis‐trans isomerization of these dyes has been studied in the range 21–41°C, much above the glass transition temperature of the polymer. The isomerization process was found to be strictly first‐order; the kinetic parameter values have been correlated with the free volume extent in the amorphous regions of the matrix. Lightfastness of the dyes in the polymer matrices has been also investigated: It appeared to be more important for the unoriented samples with respect to the stretched ones and substantially independent on the crystalinity degree.
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