Influence of chain extenders and chain end groups on properties of segmented polyurethanes. II. Dielectric study
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Savelyev, YuV
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Privalko, EG
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Kanapitsas, A
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Privalko, VP
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Pissis, P
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Akhranovich, ER
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Thermally stimulated depolarization currents (TSDC) measurements (temperature range 77-300K) and broadband a.c. dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (frequency range 10 mHz-2 GHz) were employed to investigate molecular mobility and microphase separation in model segmented polyurethanes (SPUs) from oligotetramethylene glycol 1000, 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and different chain extenders. The magnitude of the interfacial Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars (MWS) polarization TSDC peak and of d.c. conductivity have proved to sensitively reflect changes of the degree of microphase separation (DMS). The dielectric strength of both the primary and the secondary transition of the soft segments rich microphase are highest for the SPU with the highest DMS, whereas frequency (temperature) position and shape of the response are not significantly affected by DMS. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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