Amorphous structure heat: Molecular mechanisms from solution heats of poly(2,6-dimethyl-p-phenylene oxide) in orthodichlorobenzene

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The heats of solution in orthodichlorobenzene were measured as a function of temperature for both quenched and as‐received polyphenylene oxide. The curves are linear below 110°C with slopes of 0.098 cal/g°C and linear above 110°C with slopes of 0.032 cal/g°C. The inflection at 110°C is attributed to a β transition. The plot for the as‐received material is displaced vertically from that of the quenched material by 2.75 cal/g which is attributed to the fact that the as‐received material contains about 27.5% crystallinity. The major component of the heats of solution is the exothermic contribution from the solvent‐induced freeing or relaxation of the constrained molecular motions.

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