화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol.39, No.22, 2852-2859, 2001
Inelastic neutron scattering from isotactic polypropylene
We used inelastic neutron scattering to probe the low-energy excitations in semicrystalline isotactic polypropylenes with different degrees of crystallinity. The contributions from the amorphous and crystalline regions to the total scattering intensity were extracted under the assumption of a weighted linear contribution of the two regions in a simplified two-phase system. The resulting intensity from the amorphous region showed a peak at 1.2 meV that was in good agreement with the previously determined boson peak characteristic of atactic polypropylene. The possibility of a contribution to the boson peak region by longitudinal acoustic mode modes that are characteristic of semicrystalline polymers and appear in the same low-frequency region is discussed.