Measuring glass transition temperatures of polymers by using phase-stepping shadow moiré

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• 作者：Jiong-Shiun Hsu^a ; ^{jshsu@nfu.edu.tw} ; Bor-Jiunn Wen^b ; Wei Li^c ; Chen-Wei Yang^a
• 关键词：Glass transition temperature (Tg) ; Full-field optical methods ; Phase-stepping shadow moiré ; (PSSM)
• 刊名：Polymer Testing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：57
• 期：Complete
• 页码：58-66
• 全文大小：2601 K
• 卷排序：57

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The glass transition temperature (Tg) is a crucial factor in the applications of polymers. Therefore, various methodologies for Tg measurement have been developed. However, although full-field optical methods have been used in a wide range of areas and provide the advantages of high sensitivity and noncontact measurement, they have not been applied to characterize glass transition behavior for Tg measurement. Therefore, a full-field optical deflection measurement method, namely phase-stepping shadow moiré (PSSM), was employed to observe the glass transition phenomenon of a polymer and determine its Tg. The resolution of the PSSM system applied for deflection measurement in this study was 1.56 μm. A polystyrene (PS) strip was employed to demonstrate the suitability of PSSM for Tg measurement. The results indicated that the glass transition of a PS strip could be clearly determined by PSSM; the Tg was found to be 98 °C, which is close to the measurement result of other presently used methods. Therefore, this study shows that PSSM is a viable, low-cost, and easy-to-use technique that can be used to measure the Tg of polymers.