2001/11/30 by Y. Miyamoto, Yoshihisa Miyamoto, Koji Fukao +5 · 4 citations
Chemical Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties #Polymer crystallization and properties #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.88.225504
published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 88, 225504 (2002) · 4 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2002/05/20 · arxiv created 2002/05/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The memory effect upon glassification is studied in the glass-to-rubber transition of vulcanized rubber with the strain as a controlling parameter. A phenomenological model is proposed, taking the history of the temperature and the strain into account, by which the experimental results are interpreted. The data and the model demonstrate that the glassy state memorizes the time course of strain upon glassification, not as a single parameter but as the history itself. The data also show that the effect of irreversible deformation in the glassy state is beyond the scope of the present model.