Positron Annihilation Study of Hyper-Cross-Linked Polystyrene Networks
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Abstract
Hyper-cross-linked polystyrene sorbents with various degree of cross-linking ranging from 25% to over 100% were studied using positron annihilation lifetime (PAL) spectroscopy. Long-lived components of the lifetime distribution of positron annihilation, orthopositronium (o-Ps) lifetimes, give information on the effective size of elementary free volumes (unoccupied spaces), responsible for the properties of sorbents. Experiments were carried out in a vacuum, in air and also in oxygen and nitrogen. Narrow size distribution of elementary free volumes having radius of about 1.5 nm and concentration estimated as ∼1019 cm-3, were found in the samples with cross-linking higher than 40%. Some of the hyper-cross-linked samples gave positronium lifetime τ5 > 50 ns, which is among the highest values ever measured for organic polymer compounds. Positronium quenching (shortening of o-Ps lifetime) due to Ps exchange interaction with oxygen, dissolved in sorbents, gave information about the character of distribution of elementary free volumes in polymers.
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