Abstract
AbstractBrillouin spectroscopy has been used to examine high‐frequency dynamical behavior of aqueous solutions of poly(ethylene glycol) (Mw ≈ 400g/mol) at 298K in the entire concentration region. It was found that a relaxation process takes place in the experimental frequency window that significantly affects the shape of experimentally recorded spectrum of the density fluctuations (dynamical structure factor). The process detected was attributed to segmental motion of the flexible polymeric chain. The full spectrum analysis of Brillouin spectra has been performed taking advantage of the relaxation function previously used in describing a single relaxation process in dielectric examination of water solutions of PEG 400. The proposed data processing procedure permits a qualitative reproduction of concentration dependencies of the hypersonic wave velocity and absorption measured. The shapes of the concentration dependencies of the relaxation times obtained from the Brillouin and the dielectric spectroscopies are in good agreement over a very broad concentration range, although their absolute values are scaled by the factor of 3. This result indicate that the two processes revealed independently by dielectric and Brillouin spectroscopies, apparently separated in time‐scale, are just the same relaxation process.
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