RELAXATION IN FILLED POLYMERS - A FRACTIONAL CALCULUS APPROACH

In recent years the fractional calculus approach to describing dynamic processes in disordered or complex systems such as relaxation or diel ectric behavior in polymers or photo bleaching recovery in biologic me mbranes has proved to be an extraordinarily successful tool. In this p aper we apply fractional relaxation to filled polymer networks and inv estigate the dependence of the decisive occurring parameters on the fi ller content. As a result, the dynamics of such complex systems may be well-described by our fractional model whereby the parameters agree w ith known phenomenological models. (C) 1995 American Institute of Phys ics.