聚合物结晶成核剂作用的表征方法的比较和研究

用聚合物的等速降温过程的结晶温度，等温结晶过程的半结晶时间（ｔ１／２）或结晶速度常数（Ｋ），结晶过程的晶核密度或球晶尺寸大小和聚合物结晶成核界面自由能（σσｅ或σｅ）大小等方法描述了碳酸钙、对苯二甲酸、苯甲酸钠对聚丙烯成核结晶过程的影响．通过对不同方法的比较，结果表明不同方法是从不同角度来反映助剂对聚合物成核结晶过程的影响，聚合物结晶温度的高低和等温结晶过程的半结晶时间或结晶速度常数是描述聚合物整体结晶速度的参数；而聚合物结晶过程中晶核密度或结晶完了时聚合物球晶尺寸，和聚合物结晶成核界面自由能大小与聚合物的成核难易程度直接相关，是判断聚合物结晶成核速度的方法．但不同方法之间存在一定的相关性，所以用不同方法测定的结果之间有较好的可比性，可根据具体条件选用一种方法．多种方法的配合使用可以较全面的了解成核剂的作用．     

聚丙烯成核剂成核效应及热稳定性研究

为表征在聚合物材料热加工成型过程中成核剂的成核效果的热稳定性，设计了用反复升降温ＤＳＣ实验，通过观察聚合物结晶温度和结晶热焓在反复升降温过程中的变化来考察成核剂的成核效率的稳定性．研究了碳酸钙、苯甲酸钠、对苯二甲酸和脂肪二元酸：庚二酸、辛二酸、壬二酸及其与碳酸钙组成的双组分成核剂对聚丙烯结晶成核效果的热稳定性．结果表明，高熔点物质碳酸钙、对苯二甲酸、苯甲酸钠的成核效果的热稳定性高，而脂肪二元酸的成核热稳定性低．庚二酸与碳酸钙组成的双组分成核剂的成核热稳定性高，但辛二酸、壬二酸与碳酸钙组成的双组分成核剂的成核热稳定性没有得到改善．这可能是由于庚二酸与碳酸钙之间存在某种相互作用，从而使成核效果得以稳定，而辛二酸、壬二酸与碳酸钙组成的双组分成核剂中，两个组分基本独立存在．     

液晶共聚物作为β晶成核剂诱导等规聚丙烯结晶结构的研究

等规聚丙烯（PP）是一种具有同质异晶结构的半结晶高分子,呈现α,β,γ,δ和拟六方体5种形态,其结晶结构直接影响PP材料最终的物理与机械性能．研究发现,β晶PP具有良好的冲击韧性和热变形温度高等特点,使用β晶成核剂在PP中诱发稳定的卢晶是目前制备卢晶PP的有效途径．目前报道的PP的β晶成核剂基本上都是小分子化合物,而有关聚合物类β晶成核剂的研究报道很少,2007年Yu等报道了以刚性聚合物（聚苯乙烯等）作为β晶成核剂诱导PP结晶行为的研究．高分子成核剂不仅具有与PP类似的结构,同时在分散性和相容性等方面性能突出．     

聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯的结晶性能研究——V.合成树脂用的催化剂的影响

用酯交换法合成了二个不同催化剂系列的聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯(PET),并用DSC研究了催化剂对PET结晶性能的影响。以过冷程度、过热程度、熔体结晶峰等表征它们的结晶性能。结果表明:催化剂中金属元素的电负性(或lgβ_1)不仅与其催化活性有关,而且在一定程度上影响PET的结晶,可能是催化剂中金属离子的存在加速了结晶的成核速度。     

双酚A型聚碳酸酯的结晶增速改性研究进展

双酚A型聚碳酸酯(BAPC)因重复结构单元中含有两个苯撑而使分子链过于刚硬,导致其结晶极其缓慢。本文评述了BAPC的三类结晶增速改性剂,即成核剂(NAs)、晶体生长促进剂(CGAs)及成核-晶体生长耦合改性剂(NA-CGAs);提出机理上不同于异相成核(HN)的"离子簇集诱导成核(IAIN)"的概念,即NA所含离子(对)经交换反应转移至BAPC链端,而后经(单)遥爪离子静电簇集引发与之共价相连的链段在离子簇近围紧密堆砌从而诱导结晶成核的过程。NAs包括无机填料、有机小分子及有机高分子等;前者属于HN,而后两者属于HN或IAIN,取决于其中是否含有可交换离子对。CGAs包括有机溶剂、超临界CO2、酯类增塑剂、液晶小分子及柔性聚合物等;其均通过降低BAPC链段间作用力而加速晶体生长。NA-CGAs为将NA与CGA配合使用、协同促进BAPC结晶的混合物。然而,在实际熔融加工时间尺度内BAPC的结晶增速仍显不足;HN-IAIN-CGAs三元耦合改性剂有望成为今后的重点发展方向。     

纤维素芳族酯热致液晶对PET结晶成核作用的研究

用自制的热致液晶性纤维素芳族酯(CAE)作聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯(PET)的成核剂,研究了PET/CAE体系(CAE含量≤1%)在110～200℃温度范围内的等温结晶动力学特性.结果表明,CAE能显著加快PET结晶速率(Z),Z随结晶温度和CAE含量变化均有极大值Z_max(T_C)和Z_max(W_CAE),Z_max(T_C)对应的温度T_max随CAE含量增加而降低,CAE促进PET结晶的作用机理与普通成核剂不同.     

磷酸三苯酯对聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯结晶速率的影响

用光学退偏振法和DSC方法研究了聚合过程的助剂磷酸三苯酯(TPP)对聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯(PET)结晶速率的影响。用熔融混入办法将磷酸三苯酯加入PET中,不能降低PET在靠近T_g的低温结晶区的结晶速率。TPP对PET结晶速率影响的特点表明它不是PET的成核剂,而是一个增塑剂。加入TPP后样品的结晶速率可根据T_m和T_g的移动,从纯PET的结晶速率来预测。     

成核剂和促进剂对聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯结晶的影响

研究了一种成核剂和结晶促进剂及其混合物对聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯（ＰＥＴ）结晶过程和熔融行为的影响．结果表明,成核剂的引入降低了ＰＥＴ的结晶成核界面自由能,起到促进ＰＥＴ结晶成核的作用,从而加快了ＰＥＴ的结晶速度．而结晶促进剂对ＰＥＴ的结晶速度影响很小,不能促进ＰＥＴ的成核结晶,但能使ＰＥＴ结晶更完善,使ＰＥＴ的结晶度提高．当两者并用时,ＰＥＴ由熔体降温的结晶行为主要由成核剂控制,而成核促进剂的作用不明显．     

PET/PEN/DBS共混物非等温结晶动力学研究

采用DSC方法, 用修正的Avrami, Ozawa, Ziabicki宏观动力学模型描述PET/PEN/DBS[PET: 聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯; PEN: 聚2,6-萘二甲酸乙二醇酯; DBS: 1,3∶2,4-二(亚苄基)-D山梨醇]共混物的非等温熔融结晶过程, 研究结果表明, 修正的Avrami模型能很好地描述此共混物非等温结晶过程. 冷却速率在5-20 ℃/min范围内, Ozawa方程能很好地描述初期结晶过程, 但结晶后期由于忽略次级结晶而不适宜. 由Ziabicki结晶动力学参数可知, 该共混物的结晶随着成核剂DBS含量的增加而降低, 结晶速率随着成核剂DBS含量的增加而提高. 在非等温结晶条件下, 共混物结晶同时受到冷却速率和共混物组成的影响, 与共混物非等温结晶过程的有效能垒分析结果基本一致.     

PET/PEN/DBS共混体系结构与形貌的研究

共混是改善聚合物性能的一种简单而又行之有效的方法,PET和PEN均为结晶性聚酯,由于PEN合成原料的影响,致使PEN的价格较高,但性能比PET优良,通过二者的共混,既可以提高PET的性能,又可以降低PEN成本,有关PET／PEN共混体系的研究已引起人们的关注,而对于共混体系结晶形态和结晶条件的研究较少,由于成核剂能够提高结晶速率,减小球晶尺寸,因此本文对PET／PEN／DBS共混体系中,组分组成的影响及不同结晶条件下共混物的结晶形貌进行研究。     

乙烯-甲基丙烯酸共聚物离聚体在聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯中的相分离行为

Surlyn is the sodium salt of ethylene/methacrylic acid copolymer. The phase separation behavior of blend of Surlyn and Poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) has been studied by Scanning Electron Microscope and IR. It is shown that particles of Surlyn are dispersed in PET matrix, and this phase separation is controlled by heat-treated condition of blend. When the thermal treatment temperature is higher, more reaction is occurred between Surlyn and PET, thus the compatibility of Surlyn with PET' enhances and less particles of Surlyn are found.     

聚酯／改性共聚酯共混体系的相分离及其共混纤维的结构和性能

本文研究聚酯(PET)和含3.5-二甲酸苯磺酸钠(SIPM)结构单元的改性共聚酯(PEI)的共混体系。差示扫描量热分析,X射线衍射分析,染色后的透射和扫描电镜照片等均表明该体系是一个热力学不相溶的体系。在加工成形过程中,特别是在结晶过程中,富PEI相中的SIPM结构单元被排斥在晶格之外形成集簇形态,利用这种相分离的结构形态以及改性共聚酯优先水解的机理,PET/PEI共混纤维经碱水解处理后可制得微孔型的高吸水吸湿纤维。本文讨论了相分离结构对该微孔型纤维的微孔尺寸分布,吸湿保水性能以及纤维力学性能的影响。     

In‐situ microfibrillar PET/iPP blend via slit die extrusion,hot stretching,and quenching: Influence of hot stretch ratio on morphology,crystallization, and crystal structure of iPP at a fixed PET concentration

The in situ microfibrillar blend of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)/isotactic polypropylene (iPP) was fabricated through a slit die extrusion, hot stretch, and quenching process. The morphological observation indicates that while the unstretched blend appears to be a common incompatible morphology, the hot stretched blends present PET in situ fibers whose characteristics, such as diameter and aspect ratio, are dependent on the hot stretching ratio (HSR). When the HSR is low, the elongated dispersed phase particles are not uniform at all. As the HSR is increased to 16.1, well‐defined PET microfibers were generated in situ, whose diameter is rather uniform and is around 0.6 ～ 0.9 μm. The presence of the PET phase shows significant nucleation ability for crystallization of iPP. Higher HSR corresponds to faster crystallization of the iPP matrix, while as HSR is high up to a certain level, its variation has little influence on the onset and maximum crystallization temperatures of the iPP matrix during cooling from melt. Optical microscopy observation reveals that transcrystalline layers form in the microfibrillar blend, in which the PET microfibers play as the center row nuclei. In the as‐stretched microfibrillar blends, small‐angle X‐ray scattering measurements show that matrix iPP lamellar crystals have the same orientation as PET lamella. The long period of lamellar crystals of iPP is not affected by the presence of PET micofibers. Wide‐angle X‐ray scattering reveals that the β phase of iPP is obtained in the as‐stretched blends, whose concentration increases with the increase of the HSR. This suggests that finer PET microfibers can promote the occurrence of the β phase. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 4095–4106, 2004     

Morphology and properties of isotactic polypropylene/poly(ethylene terephthalate) in situ microfibrillar reinforced blends: Influence of viscosity ratio

In situ microfibrillar reinforced blends based on blends of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) were successfully prepared by a “slit extrusion-hot stretching-quenching” process. Four types of iPP with different apparent viscosity were utilized to investigate the effect of viscosity ratio on the morphology and mechanical properties of PET/iPP microfibrillar blend. The morphological observation shows that the viscosity ratio is closely associated to the size of dispersed phase droplets in the original blends, and accordingly greatly affects the microfibrillation of PET. Lower viscosity ratio is favorable to formation of smaller and more uniform dispersed phase particles, thus leading to finer microfibrils with narrower diameter distribution. Addition of a compatibilizer, poly propylene-grafted-glycidyl methacrylate (PP-g-GMA), can increase the viscosity ratio and decrease the interfacial tension between PET and iPP, which tends to decrease the size of PET phase in the unstretched blends. After stretched, the aspect ratio of PET microfibrils in the compatibilized blends is considerably reduced compared to the uncompatibilized ones. The lower viscosity ratio brought out higher mechanical properties of the microfibrillar blends. Compared to the uncompatibilized microfibrillar blends, the tensile, flexural strength and impact toughness of the compatibilized ones are all improved.     

PET/LDPE REACTIVE COMPATIBILIZATION THROUGH THE CARBAMATE FUNCTIONALIZED EPM

ABSTRACT

To investigate the effect of reactive compatibilization in the immiscible poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)/low-density polyethylene (LDPE) blend, ethylene-propylene copolymer-g-methacryloyl carbamate (MEPM) was prepared and used as a reactive compatibilizer. The inter-facial reaction of carbamate group in MEPM with OH/COOH in PET was confirmed by measuring the interfacial tension between the PET and LDPE using the breaking thread method. The two-step blending process strongly influenced the blend morphology at high concentration of the dispersed phase in the blend. The MEPM showed a discrepancy in the reactive compatibilization ability with a blend sequence in the blends of different dispersed phase concentration.     

Electrical conductivities of carbon nanotube-filled polycarbonate/polyester blends

Carbon nanotube (CNT)-filled polycarbonate (PC)/poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) and polycarbonate (PC)/poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) blends containing 1 wt% CNTs over a wide range of blend compositions were prepared by melt mixing in a torque rheometer to investigate the structure-electrical conductivity relationship. Field emission scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the blend morphology and the distribution of CNTs. The latter was compared with the thermodynamic predictions through the calculation of wetting coefficients. It was found that CNTs are selectively localized in the polyester phase and conductive blends can be obtained over the whole composition range (20 wt%, 50 wt% and 80 wt% PBT) for CNT-filled PC/PBT blends, while conductive CNT-filled PC/PET blends can only be obtained when PET is the continuous phase (50 wt%, 80 wt% PET). The dramatic difference in the electrical conductivity between the two types of CNT-filled PC/polyester blends at a low polyester content (20 wt%) was explained by the size difference of the dispersed phases on the basis of the transmission electron microscope micrographs.     

The effect of annealing on the crystallization of poly(ethylene terephthalate)/polycarbonate blends

The effect of annealing on the morphology and subsequent crystallization kinetics of poly (ethylene terephthalate)/polycarbonate blends have been investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized light microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). During annealing transesterification and phase coarsening occurred, and the final properties were compromizes between these two competing effects. Initially, the effect of phase separation dominated and the rate of cold crystallization of PET increased. Transesterification, however, became increasingly important and the rate of crystallization decreased progressively until finally the blend completely lost the ability to crystallize. At this stage in the reaction a single glass transition was observed and uniform glassy material observed in the SEM. The maximum crystallinity of the blend achieved on heating showed the same trend in first increasing and then decreasing with annealing time. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 2129–2136, 2004     

Intimate blend of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and poly(ethylene 2,6‐naphthalate) via formation with and coalescence from their common inclusion compound with γ‐cyclodextrin

The experimental procedures to place poly(ethylene 2,6‐naphthalate) (PEN) guest molecules within γ‐cyclodextrin (γ‐CD) host molecules are described along with the subsequent verification of inclusion‐compound (IC) formation. In addition, the simultaneous complexing of PEN and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) with γ‐CD to form their common IC is documented. Coalescence from their common γ‐CD IC generates an intimate blend of the PET and PEN polymers contained therein. Thermal analysis via differential scanning calorimetry reveals thermal behavior indicative of an intimate blend of PET and PEN. ¹H NMR analysis confirms that the intimate blending of PET and PEN achieved by coalescence from their common γ‐CD IC is not due to transesterification into a PET/PEN copolymer during thermal analysis. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 41: 139–148, 2003     

TRANSESTERIFICATION OF POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) WITH POLY(ε-CAPROLACTONE)*

Transesterification of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) with poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) was investigated bymeans of NMR spectroscopy, extraction experiments, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and phase contrast microscopy(PCM). The ~1H-NMR results show that transesterification takes place in the melt blends and leads to the formation of thePET-PCL copolyester with a chemical structure similar to ethylene terephthalate-ε-caprolactonc copolycster (TCL)synthesized directly from monomers. However, even in the blend that has been transesterified for 8 h, the random PET-PCLcopolyester, PET-PCL copolyester with long PET or long PCL segments and the unreacted PET and PCL homopolymersmay coexist. Due to the low mobility of PET and PCL chains and the high viscosity of the two macromolecules, thetransesterification proceeds with difficulty. Furthermore, PET is incompatible with PCL, the transesterification can onlyoccur at the interface or in the interfacial region between two phases, and finally the reaction can only reach a localequilibrium. These results indicate that in fact the transesterification in the melt blend between two incompatiblehomopolymers could not lead to the formation of completely random or typical block copolyesters.     

Solid state blending of poly(ethylene terephthalate) with polystyrene: Extent of PET amorphization and compositional effects on crystallizability

Polystyrene (PS) and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) were blended together in the solid state via cryogenic mechanical attrition (CMA) and in the melt through conventional twin‐screw extrusion. CMA PS/PET blend morphologies were characterized both qualitatively and quantitatively through microscopy and thermal analysis. Specifically, CMA reduced the dispersed‐phase domain size and its distribution relative to simple melt extrusion, although not to the extent attained with added chemical compatibilizers. CMA also amorphized the PET phase and depressed the PET cold crystallization rate, which was measured by post‐CMA nonisothermal MDSC analysis. The PET amorphization efficiency and crystallizability for CMA PS/PET blends were the highest and lowest, respectively, at the PS/PET phase inversion. These concomitant phenomena are known to be caused by CMA‐induced PET crystal defect formation and subsequent entropic stabilization. Such behaviors are linked to the enhanced presence of an uncrystallizable rigid amorphous PET phase, and the weight fraction of this rigid amorphous fraction (RAF PET) was quantified and also maximized near the PS/PET phase inversion. Moreover, the increased compatibilization and amorphization efficiencies and reduced PET crystallizability were determined to be interdependent. These studies have verified that CMA of PET with PS is more efficient than extrusion due to the formation of nonequilibrium, metastable morphologies that can be more precisely controlled and better stabilized with an interesting, composition‐dependent interplay between PET crystallizability and the extent of PS/PET compatibilization. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 46: 1348–1359, 2008