Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1408256 | Journal of Molecular Structure | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Principal component analysis-based two-dimensional (PCA2D) correlation spectroscopy through eigenvalue manipulating transformation (EMT) of spectral data set was applied to temperature-dependent IR spectra of polystyrene-block-poly(n-pentyl methacrylate) (PS-PnPMA) for spectral selectivity enhancement. EMT technique which uniformly lowers the power of a set of eigenvalues associated with the original data highlights the subtle contributions from minor eigenvectors. Thus subtle differences in the thermal responses of PS-PnPMA, which are difficult to observe by conventional 2D correlation analysis, are accentuated much more strongly than the original data. A conclusion was reached on details of phase transition of PS-PnPMA which exhibited a closed-loop phase behavior bounded by a lower disorder-to-order transition (LDOT) and an upper order-to-disorder transition (UODT). We found that a disordered state at lower temperature is different from that at higher temperature.
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Authors
Young Mee Jung, Hye Jeong Kim, Du Yeol Ryu, Seung Bin Kim, Jin Kon Kim,