A molecular-dynamics simulation study of dielectric relaxation in a 1,4-polybutadiene melt

We have carried out atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of a melt of 1,4-poly(butadiene) from temperatures well above the experimentally observed merging of the primary α process and secondary β process down to temperatures approaching the experimentally observed bifurcation temperature. The relaxation strength and maximum loss frequency and its temperature dependence for the combined α-β dielectric relaxation process from simulations were in good agreement with experiment. The maximum loss frequency, melt viscosity, chain normal-mode relaxation times and torsional autocorrelation times were found to exhibit nearly identical non-Arrhenius temperature dependencies well represented by a Vogel–Fulcher fit with parameters in good agreement with experimental values obtained from dielectric and viscosity measurements. The dielectric susceptibility showed increasing intensity at high frequency for the lower temperatures investigated, indicative of a breakdown in time-temperature superposition due to an emer...

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