Diffusion behavior of dye particles into various polymer films was investigated comparing the degree of coloring with the dynamic mechanical properties of dyed films.
The polymers used in this work were polystylene (PST), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA).
Dynamic mechanical properties were measured by free vibration technique holding the polymer film samples in dyeing solutions. As a measure of the degree of coloring, optical densities at 608mμ and 640mμ in spectroscopy were used. Data were taken mainly in the temperature rang where the mechanical dispersion based on the onset of microbrownian motion of polymer chains, was observed.
As the results:
(1) For the polymers used in this work, the dyeing begins at the temperature where the loss modulus
G″ begins to increase in the log
G″ vs. temperature curve. The dispersion is refered to α mechanism for PST, PMMA and PET, to mechanism I for PE and to mechanism 2 for PVA.
(2) For high density polyethylene, the
TG″max belongs to mechanism I, The activation energy calculated from the shift factors for mechanism I was close to that for diffusion of low molecular weight substances into polymer films. The results of dyeing of single crystal mats of big density polyethylene showed that no dye particle disperses into crystallites.
(3) PVA films is not dyed below 120°C in the case of dyeing in non-aqueous dispersion medium for dyes. The dispersion around 120°C belongs to mechanism 2. The activation energy calculated from shift factors for mechanism 2 ws close to that for diffusion of dye into polymer films.
Thus the molecular motion associated with this dispersion is considered to have a close relation to the diffusion of dye particles.
It is noted that abrupt changes in the temperature dependence of specific volume, IR spectra and spacings in X-ray diffraction were observed at around 120°C and that this dispersion is concidered as due to the crystalline region.
The results in this report suggest that the change of the crystalline region seems to affect the motion of amorphous chainsegments.
Thus released molecular motions may be available to make the holes which are large enough for dye particles to diffuse into polymer films.
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