Abstract
The α and β relaxation processes in two types of poly(ethylene terephthalate) with different degrees of crystallinity were studied by means of three methods, differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic-mechanical analysis and fluorescence spectroscopy. Information provided is complementary in the mean that every method sense phenomena that may occur at different times and length scales. Several probes, Coumarin 152 (C152), Coumarin 153 (C153), Coumarin 337 (C337) and 4′-dimethylamino-4-nitrostilbene (DMANS), were adsorbed in polymer films, and their fluorescence analysed over the temperature range from −150 to 150 °C. In general, a decrease in fluorescence intensity of probes as temperature increase was observed. This behaviour has been explained as a consequence of the enhancement of the free volume fraction that favoured the radiationless process of the lowest excited singlet state. Plots of fluorescence intensity versus temperature showed changes around the secondary relaxation temperatures. Therefore, good correlations between fluorescence and dynamic mechanical and calorimetric analysis were established. The obtained results indicated that the fluorescence from the probes incorporated to the material was dependent on the crystallinity of polymer. It would indicate that the fluorescence emission from those probes can be used to analyse annealing processes in semicrystalline polymers.
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