Comparison of liquid and glass sides of the glass transition in polymers: Goldstein's theory as a manifestation of the gdcbmsup law of corresponding states and scaling and analytic expression for glass fictive temperature

Abstract

Reinforcement to the alternative Goldstein view of the glass transition in polymers as dominated by vibrational, anharmonic and β-relaxation components, as opposed to configurational entropy domination, is given using the scaling property and law of corresponding states indigenous to the generalized-disorder collective-boson mode-softening universality-principle.