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- Title
Poly(styrene- co-maleic anhydride) ionomers as nucleating agent on the crystallization behavior of poly(ethylene terephthalate).
- Authors
Xing, Shili; Tang, Ping; Yang, Yuliang
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Poly(styrene- co-maleic anhydride) (SMA) ionomers were synthesized and designed as a new kind of nucleation agent according to the crystallization theory for improving the crystallization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). The crystallization behavior of PET with the addition of nucleation agents was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, polarized-light microscope, and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Avrami equation and Hoffman-Lauritzen theory are adopted for analyzing isothermal and non-isothermal crystallization kinetics, respectively. The results show that the addition of 1 wt % SMA ionomers effectively accelerates the crystallization rate and reduces the fold surface free energy of PET at high temperature regions. PLM results also indicated that the crystals impinge on each other, thus decreasing the spherulite size for PET/SMA ionomers samples compared with PET. XRD measurement revealed that the introduction of SMA ionomers does not change the crystal structure but indeed accelerates the crystallinity of PET. The results clearly demonstrate that our synthesized SMA ionomers are an efficient nucleating agent for PET. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015, 132, 41240.
- Subjects
MALEIC anhydride; IONOMERS; NUCLEATING agents; CRYSTALLIZATION; POLYETHYLENE terephthalate; X-ray diffraction; AVRAMI equation
- Publication
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2015, Vol 132, Issue 2, pn/a
- ISSN
0021-8995
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/app.41240