In Situ Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Thermal Degradation of Isotactic Poly(propylene)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Department
Polymers and High Performance Materials
Abstract
The conformational change of isotactic poly(propylene) (iPP) during the thermal degradation process has been carefully studied by in situ Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. This new method of studying thermal degradation of iPP not only shows the conventional kinetic parameter information of thermal degradation such as the degradation activation energy ΔE and the degradation factor n, which are in accord with the results of traditional thermogravimetry experiments, but also indicates that many significant molecular structure changes occur during the thermal degradation process that come from some characteristic absorption band changes of in situ FT-IR. A multivariate approach, principal components analysis (PCA), is applied to the analysis of infrared (IR) data, and the results further confirm the multi-step processes of the thermal degradation of iPP. Above all, this is a new application to polymer thermal degradation by in situ FT-IR that connects the intermediate conformational change with final results during thermal degradation.
Publication Title
Applied Spectroscopy
Volume
59
Issue
1
First Page
33
Last Page
38
Recommended Citation
He, P.,
Xiao, Y.,
Zhang, P.,
Zhu, N.,
Zhu, X.,
Yan, D.
(2005). In Situ Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Thermal Degradation of Isotactic Poly(propylene). Applied Spectroscopy, 59(1), 33-38.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/2893