Studies of the amorphous region of polymers. II. Relationship between change of structure and glass‐transition temperature in polycarbonate

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Abstract
A study of the effect of drawing on the glass transition temperature Tg of amorphous polycarbonate was carried out. The Tg attains a maximum at a draw ratio in the range from 1.6 to 2.0. The relationship between the change of structure and Tg is discussed in terms of the configurational entropy and the rate of molecular motion in local mode relaxation. The variation of Tg with drawing may be explained by using the iso‐entropy theory. The frequency of the maximum in the dielectric loss fmax and the dielectric relaxation strength Δε of the β mechanism changed with drawing in the same way as that of Tg. Based on the parallel behavior in these results, it is reasonable to consider that the β process of local mode relaxation of polyesters such as PC and PET reflects the structure of the glassy state.