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Electron microscopy of crazes in glassy polymers: Use of reinforcing impregnants during microtomy

Abstract

Attempts to prepare undamaged microtomed sections of crazes without reinforcement have failed. Several methods of reinforcing crazes in glassy polymers with impregnants prior to microtomy have been tried. Generalized characteristics of successful impregnant systems are suggested on the basis of this experience. The most successful system has involved the infusion of liquid sulfur into crazes in poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide). After quenching, the solid sulfur reinforces the crazes successfully during microtomy but subsequently sublimes away under vacuum. The resultant, largely undamaged craze structure is seen by transmission electron microscopy to resemble an open-cell foam, the holes and polymer elements of which uniformly average ∼200 Å in diameter. A moderate degree of orientation in the original tensile stress direction is observed. Implications drawn from craze structure for the existence of order in the glassy state are discussed.


Publication:
Journal of Polymer Science B Polymer Physics
Pub Date:
August 1969
DOI:

10.1002/pol.1969.160070809

Bibcode:
1969JPoSB...7.1393K
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