Issue 0, 1972

Nuclear magnetic relaxation in polypropylene

Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance T1, T1ρ, and T2 relaxation results are reported for drawn polypropylene. The results indicate that three relaxation processes are operative: a low-temperature methyl relaxation process, a higher temperature β relaxation, and a high temperature α relaxation process. The data presented here are consistent with previous interpretations of the first two relaxations. Little anisotropy was observed in the relaxation times when recorded as a function of the applied magnetic field direction. A theoretical expression for the rotating-frame relaxation time, T1ρ, is derived which is appropriate to a rotation of the methyl group about its threefold axis. The effects of a distribution of relaxation times which result from a random orientation of methyl groups in the polymer are included as also are the effects of spin diffusion. The agreement between theory and experiment is satisfactory.

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J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2, 1972,68, 1051-1059

Nuclear magnetic relaxation in polypropylene

V. J. McBrierty, D. C. Douglass and D. R. Falcone, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2, 1972, 68, 1051 DOI: 10.1039/F29726801051

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