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Takahashi, Shuichi*; Yoshida, Masaru; Asano, Masaharu; Notomi, Mitsuo*; Nakagawa,Tsutomu*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 217(3), p.435 - 441, 2004/05
Times Cited Count:15 Percentile:68.07(Instruments & Instrumentation)Various characterization were used to study the effect of heavy ion irradiation on a poly(ethylen terephthalate)(PET) membrane. My study was followed using some dynamic and thermal measurements with the aim to undestand the chemical change in the material by heavy ion irradiation. The anyalyese included DMA, tensile measurement, DSC and micro-FT-IR. The overall structure change in the PET polymer was investigated as a function of the Xe ion fluence in the range from 310 to 310ions/cm. Based on some mechanical measurements such as the tensile analysis and dynamic test, the heavy ion irradiated PET membranes exhibited a significant change in cross-linking. I believe that the secondary electron induced by collision between the irradiated ion and the constituent atoms of the membrane material form the cross-linking. The polymer chain scission and structure degradations are expected to result at higher ion fluence. Also, a slight change in the structure such as amorphization has been shown by DSC and the micro-FT-IR test.