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N.L. Salmén and E. Back. The influence of water on the glass transition temperature of cellulose. In Fibre-Water Interactions in Paper-Making, Trans. of the VIth Fund. Res. Symp. Oxford, 1977, (Fundamental Research Committee, ed.), pp 683–690, FRC, Manchester, 2018.

Abstract

The glass transition temperature is the temperature at which an amorphous polymer changes from a hard glassy form into a rubberlike elastic form or to a viscous fluid. At this glass transition, which is a secondary transition, the temperature derivatives of both physical and mechanical properties of the polymer change.


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