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The migration of dye molecules and healing of structural heterogeneities (internal interfaces) in an amorphous-polymer-dye system during thermal treatment are studied for the PVC-Rhodamine 6G composite prepared via the method of solvent crazing. The kinetic data on the above processes are collected through spectroscopic measurements in the visible spectral region and parallel measurements of the linear dimensions of the samples. During thermal treatment at temperatures above T g, dye molecules in the monomer modification migrate from the surface of the fibrillar craze material into the volume of the bulk polymer matrix; as a result, uniformly colored transparent samples form. In the general case, healing of the polymerdye composites includes two stages: a fast stage and a slow stage (∼1 and ∼2000 min at 85°C, respectively). The molecular mechanism of the first stage is related to the growth of the conformational entropy during shrinkage of the sample; as a result of this process, porosity decreases. The slow stage involves the disappearance of interfibrillar boundaries and occurs owing to the reptational mobility of macromolecules. The phenomenon of healing (in the broad meaning of this term) should be treated as a process that decreases the free surface energy of the polymer system.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Volkov, A.A. Tunyan, M.A. Moskvina, A.I. Dement’ev, N.G. Yaryshev, A.L. Volynskii, N.F. Bakeev, 2011, published in Vysokomolekulyarnye Soedineniya, Ser. A, 2011, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 248–255.
This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 08-03-00411-a), a Grant for State Support of Leading Scientific Schools (NSh 2467.2008.3), and State Contract no. 02.740.11.0143.
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Volkov, A.V., Tunyan, A.A., Moskvina, M.A. et al. Features of the development of amorphous-polymer-dye composites prepared via solvent crazing. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 53, 158–165 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X11020118
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