BARC/PUB/2011/0653

 
 

Local vibration assisted molecular configurations in poly(vinylidene fluoride) of ordered ferroelectric phase in N,N-dimethylformamide

 
     
 
Author(s)

Susrutha, B.; Ram, S.; Tyagi, A. K.

Source

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2011. Vol. 161 (3): pp. 132-138

ABSTRACT

Amide-based polymer liquids are important for developing biological and optical colloids or nanofluids. Functionalized properties arise from specific molecular structures. In this investigation, we report model molecular configurations of a polymer liquid, 0.3 g/L poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVF2) dissolved in liquid N,Ndimethylformamide (DMF), based on the characteristic IR vibration bands. Peculiarly, a ferroelectric β-PVF2 phase reorders on a linear configuration in support with the DMF molecules, showing a characteristic band 840 cm−1 (CH2 rocking and CF2 asymmetric stretching) with the trans band at 1275 cm−1. Four C_O stretching bands ν10, ν11, ν12, and ν13 of 1650, 1675, 1725, and 1760 cm−1 (bandwidth Δν½=180 cm−1 in the four bands) arise in four major configurations of DMF–PVF2 pairs (or derivatives). Only one prominent ν10 band 1660 cm−1 (Δν½=75 cm−1) incurs with a shoulder ν1 1 of 1725 cm−1 (Δν½=25 cm−1) in two DMF configurations. A ferroelectric field cased in presence of β-PVF2 leads to enhance IR absorption by as much as an order of magnitude. It leads to converging non-bonding electron density on the amide moiety.

 
 
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