2021年4月
The Narrow Thickness Distribution of Lamellae of Poly(butylene succinate) Formed at Low Melt Supercooling
MACROMOLECULES
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- 巻
- 54
- 号
- 7
- 開始ページ
- 3366
- 終了ページ
- 3376
- DOI
- 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00388
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Crystallization of poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) at 100 degrees C, about 30 K below the equilibrium melting temperature, allowed the preparation of crystals, which were analyzed regarding their zero-entropy-production melting temperature. Irreversible melting occurs in a rather narrow temperature window of only around 8 K, between 101 and 109 degrees C, revealing a narrow distribution of the thickness of isothermally formed lamellae and a rather low thickening/stabilization factor of less than 1.4. Quasi-isothermal temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry suggests significant reversible melting and crystallization during and after crystallization, proving the existence of a large fraction of crystalline phase being at the stability limit at the crystallization temperature. Heating of crystals formed at 100 degrees C to above their zero-entropy-production melting temperature, followed by isothermal annealing, permitted the analysis of the kinetics of irreversible melting, yielding superheating-dependent rate constants of the order of magnitude of 102 s(-1) 5-10 K above the zero-entropy-production melting temperature. The advanced analysis of the melting behavior of polymer crystals isothermally grown at low melt supercooling allows one to draw conclusions about their (inherently) low thermodynamic stability.
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00388
- ISSN : 0024-9297