Broad-band dielectric spectroscopy (10 -1 −10 7 Hz) has been used to study the molecular dynamics in a set of bisphenol A poly(ester carbonate)s (BPA-PECs) and tetramethylbisphenol A poly(ester carbonate)s (TMBPA-PECs) containing 1,4-cyclohexylene dicarboxylate (CHDC) linkages. Four dielectric relaxation processes are observed: The dynamic glass transition ( α -relaxation) being characterized by a Williams−Landel−Ferry (WLF-behavior) temperature dependence. Additionally three secondary relaxations ( β -, γ‘-, and γ*-relaxation) exist. The β -relaxation is related to the flip-flop motion of the cyclohexylene rings and becomes dielectrically active because of a coupling to the neighboring carbonyl units. The γ‘- and γ*-relaxations originate from fluctuations of the carbonyl groups as well, either by their own librational motions or by a coupling to the flips of the adjacent phenylene groups. Replacing the hydrogen atoms in the phenylene rings ortho to the carbonate units (BPA-PEC) by methyl groups (TMBPA-PEC) alters drastically the molecular dynamics below and above the calorimetric glass transition.
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