Abstract
The dynamics of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA) was studied by employing broadband dielectric spectroscopy over a wide temperature range extending from below to above the glass-transition temperature. Dielectric spectra reveal the existence of two relaxation processes: the structural relaxation, slowing down for decreasing temperature and freezing at ${T}_{g}$, and a secondary process present in both liquid and glassy phase. Above the glass transition the temperature behavior of the structural relaxation time is properly described by a Vogel-Fulcher-Tamman equation with the singularity at ${T}_{0}$=234 K. The analysis of the variation of the relaxation strength versus temperature of both processes clearly shows the onset of the structural relaxation at ${T}_{\mathrm{on}}$\ensuremath{\approx}350 K. Below this temperature the two relaxations progressively separate their time scales and change their shapes. The occurrence of the glass-transition phenomenon is markedly evidenced by the changes of the relaxation strength and of the low-frequency slope of the secondary relaxation.
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