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Glass/rubber transitions and heat capacities of binary sugar blends
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Glass/rubber transitions and heat capacities of binary sugar blends

Leonard Finegold, Felix Franks and Ross H. M Haltey
Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 1: Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases, v 85(9), pp 2945-2951
1989

Abstract

The pairs of sugars glucose-fructose and fructose-sucrose have been comelted and quenched to form binary glasses. Glass-to-rubber transition temperatures T g and heat capacities of the glasses and the crystalline sugars have been measured by computer-aided differential scanning calorimetry. T g was found to vary smoothly with glass composition and the (constant pressure) heat capacities C of the glasses and rubbers varied monotonically with T g . It is suggested that C is a better and experimentally more convenient indicator of T g and the glassy state than is the inferred viscosity in terms of which T g is usually defined. The T g data for mixtures extrapolate smoothly to a T g of fructose of 286 K which differs substantially from the value (373 K) previously reported. C values for the crystalline sugars agree with literature data.

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