| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Chemiluminescence from polymers during heating was measured as a spectrum with a multichannel Fourier-transform chemiluminescence spectrometer. In general, luminescence spectra are superimposed by emission bands due to some luminophores. We established luminescence spectroscopy to find time- and temperature-dependent spectral profiles of each emission band by a least squares fitting process using Gaussian functions. Mechanisms of thermal oxidative degradation of hydrocarbon polymers such as polypropylene and gamma-irradiated degradation of fluorocarbon polymers such as polytetrafluoroethylene were investigated by the luminescence spectroscopy at the molecular level. It was concluded that peroxides and peroxy radicals play the roles of luminophore and its precursor, respectively.
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