半晶聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯中的受限非晶相

当半晶聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯 (PET)的结晶度 (Xwc)处于一定范围内时 ,其物理老化后在差示扫描量热(DSC)曲线上的玻璃化转变区有吸热双峰出现 .通过对此吸热双峰分别与完全非晶试样和具有相当高Xwc 的半晶试样物理老化后在DSC曲线上出现的吸热单峰的比较 ,表明半晶PET中存在两种性质极为不同的非晶区 ,即自由非晶区和受限非晶区 .动态力学热分析 (DMTA)曲线上显示的损耗正切 (tanδ)双峰进一步证实了这两种不同非晶区的存在 .这两种不同非晶区的产生是由于试样中晶粒对非晶相中高分子链段活动性的不同限制作用所致 .研究发现 ,对于由冷结晶得到的半晶试样来说 ,出现两种不同非晶区所需的Xwc 上下限都随结晶温度 (Tc)的升高而增高 .还发现 ,在物理老化过程中 ,虽然非晶相的总量基本保持不变 ,但部分自由非晶区却逐渐转变为受限非晶区 .上述实验结果很好地符合Struik的“扩展玻璃化转变”模型 .     

PMMA对聚氧乙烯β转变的影响

对半结晶聚氧乙烯（PEO)/PMMA共混体系的DSC及动态力学行为研究表明：PEO在和PMMA形成半结晶PEO/PMMA共混体系后，其β转变的峰温没有明显移动；β峰只出现在淬炎的半结晶PEO/PMMA共混体系中，而在完全非晶的相容性共混体系以及退火的半结晶共混体系不出现；在β转变区，对应的模量反常地增大，对应的DSC曲线有明显阶跃。可见，半结晶PEO的β转变并不象通常所认为的源于PEO非晶区的玻璃化转变。在接受半结晶PEO及半结晶PEO/PMMA共混体系的PEO结晶区存在结晶-非晶中间相观点的基础上，认为β转变源于PEO结晶区结晶-非晶中间相的玻璃化转变过程。     

半结晶聚酯的两相分离及其可靠性分析

联用Rietveld方法、Fourier过滤技术和径向分布函数(RDF)研究了半结晶聚酯(PET)粉末样的结晶相和非晶相两相分离及结构分析问题，得到合理的结晶相和非晶相的结构参数，表明这种方法对分析半结晶高聚物的两相结构是可行的.文中提出，判断半结晶高聚物二相分离和结构分析是否可靠，除需考虑分辩结晶相结构参数是否正确的三个判据之外，还需加上二个物理判据.还指出 ,若要获得合理的两相分离结果，提供纯非晶试样的散射曲线作为拟合时本底强度初始值是必要的.     

聚合物晶态结构研究的新进展

本文综述了近年来国际上对晶态聚合物结构研究的几个活跃问题,内容包括高分子折叠链,结晶-非晶中间层,晶态聚合物的形变机理,聚合物附生结晶。并简要介绍了各种实验技术及方法在这方面的研究结果。     

乙烯-丙烯酸共聚物非晶区结构和分子运动的固体核磁共振研究

利用固体高分辨1 3CCP MAS和变温固体质子宽线技术对乙烯 丙烯酸共聚物 (EAA)非晶区的结构和分子运动进行了研究 ,结果发现 ,非晶区中羧基之间可以形成氢键 ,其数量随着共聚物中丙烯酸共聚单体含量的增加而增加 ,使得共聚物中非晶区分子运动能力随非晶区相对含量的增加而减弱 ,这是一种与一般的乙烯共聚物相反的变化趋势 .通过交叉极化方法间接测量了非晶区中乙烯链段的1 H自旋 自旋弛豫时间 (T2 ) ,表明非晶区中乙烯链段的运动同样受到氢键的束缚 .随着温度的升高 ,羧基之间的氢键发生解离 ,非晶区的柔性增强     

用固体高分辨NMR研究聚(L-丙氨酸)-聚乙二醇单甲醚双嵌段共聚物的微相结构与链段运动

利用固体高分辨¹³CCP/MAS及二维WISE核磁共振技术研究了聚(L-丙氨酸)-聚乙二醇单甲醚双嵌段共聚物(MPEG-b-PLA)在固态下的微相结构和链段运动行为.结果表明,聚乙二醇链段在形成嵌段共聚物后结晶度明显下降,同时存在晶区和非晶区,从而表现出两种不同的运动状态.而聚乙二醇链段的引入对聚L-丙氨酸链段影响不大,嵌段共聚物中聚L-丙氨酸链段高度结晶,同时含有大量的α螺旋结构,分子链运动严重受限,估计聚L-丙氨酸链段的相区尺寸很小.     

钇对Nd-Fe-Al-Ni非晶合金热稳定性与晶化行为的影响

采用差示扫描量热法（DSC）、X射线衍射（XRD）和透射电镜（TEM）研究了Y对Nd-Fe-Al-Ni非晶合金热稳定性和晶化行为的影响。结果表明,淬火态的Nd60Fe20Al10Ni10-xYx（x=0,2）合金基本为非晶组织同时还含有少量的淬态相,Y的加入抑制了淬态相的析出。加入Y后,非晶合金的晶化开始温度和晶化峰值温度都向高温方向移动,证明其热稳定性提高。Y的加入改变了合金的晶化方式和最终晶化产物,使非晶基体中析出的晶化相更加弥散圆整细小。并且Y具有在化学上钝化氧杂质的作用,从而抑制了氧的有害作用。利用Kissinger方程获得了Nd60Fe20Al10Ni8Y2非晶合金的晶化开始和晶化峰值激活能分别为1.21和1.16 eV。     

不相容PHBV/PS、PHBV/PMMA结晶/非晶共混体系的结晶行为研究

在不同的共混比例、不同的结晶温度下对不相容PHBV/PS、PHBV/PMMA结晶/非晶共混体系的结晶行为做了系统的研究.研究发现当PHBV含量为75wt%时,共混体系仍然和纯PHBV一样生成环带球晶;而当PHBV含量为50wt%时,共混体系在略低于非晶组分玻璃化转变温度时呈现花瓣状的球晶形貌;当PHBV含量为25wt%时,PHBV/PS体系出现不规则的晶体形貌,而PHBV/PMMA体系在偏光显微镜下没有观察到晶体.在这种不相容共混体系中,非晶组分的分散状态以及共混比例对共混体系中PHBV环带球晶的形成起到决定性的作用,而非晶组分对PHBV球晶的片晶前端生长的影响是形成花瓣状球晶的主要原因.     

高分子混合物薄膜的相分离行为

从高分子混合物薄膜的相分离行为的机理，相分离后期粗化动力微区尺寸与时间的标度关系，影响高分子混合物薄膜表面形态形成的因素等几个方面对近年来高分子混合物薄膜相行为的研究进展进行总结，概述了今后可能的发展趋势。     

液晶聚芳醚酮/含甲基苯侧基聚芳醚酮共混体系的环带球晶

本文通过研究含氯侧基液晶聚芳醚酮/含甲基苯侧基聚芳醚酮共混体系(结晶/非晶)环带球晶的形态演变和发展过程; 利用选择性溶剂刻蚀方法确定共混体系环带球晶的相组成和相结构, 探讨了环带球晶的形成机理.     

Modeling and simulation of morphology variation during the solidification of polymer melts with amorphous and semi‐crystalline phases

The solidification of polymer melts in practical processing such as extrusion, injection molding and blow molding can significantly influence the inner structure and performance of final products. The investigation of its mechanism has both scientific and industrial interests. In the study, the three‐dimensional mathematical model is developed for the simulation of morphology variation in the solidification of polymer melts with amorphous and semi‐crystalline phases. The amorphous phase is simulated as the finite extensible nonlinear elastic dumbbell with a peterlin closure approximation (FENE‐P) fluid and the semi‐crystalline phase is approximated as rigid rods that grow and oriented in the flow field. The model of amorphous phase and semi‐crystalline phase are coupled through the stress and momentum balance and the feedback of crystallinity to the system relaxation time. The evolution of crystallization kinetics process are described by using a set of Schneider equation that discriminating the relative roles of the thermal and the flow effect on the crystallization behavior. With the standard Galerkin formulation adopted as basic computational framework, the discrete elastic viscous stress splitting algorithm in cooperating with the streamline upwinding approach serves as a relatively robust numerical scheme by using penalty finite element–finite difference simulation with a decoupled solving algorithm. The proposed mathematical model and numerical method have been successfully applied to the investigation of solidification of polymer melts in the extrusion process. The variations of orientation and crystallization morphology during the solidification process are further discussed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Study of temperature transitions in solid poly(oxymethylene) by thermal analysis methods

Poly(oxymethylene)s with different molecular mass and chemical structure were studied using DSC, dynamic mechanical relaxation, thermomechanical analysis, and thermogravimetry.Molecular mobilities of two types were found in the amorphous phase of poly(oxymethylene). Unconstrained chains of poly(oxymethylene) soften at –70°C and then amorphous chains with different restraints from the crystalline phase are successively activated in a wide temperature interval.Dedicated to Professor Bernhard Wunderlich on the occasion of his 65th birthdayThis work has been supported by DuPont Company     

Micromechanical modeling of the elastic properties of semicrystalline polymers: A three‐phase approach

The mechanical performance of semicrystalline polymers is strongly dependent on their underlying microstructure, consisting of crystallographic lamellae and amorphous layers. In line with that, semicrystalline polymers have previously been modeled as two and three‐phase composites, consisting of a crystalline and an amorphous phase and, in case of the three‐phase composite, a rigid‐amorphous phase between the other two, having a somewhat ordered structure and a constant thickness. In this work, the ability of two‐phase and three‐phase composite models to predict the elastic modulus of semicrystalline polymers is investigated. The three‐phase model incorporates an internal length scale through crystalline lamellar and interphase thicknesses, whereas no length scales are included in the two‐phase model. Using linear elastic behavior for the constituent phases, a closed form solution for the average stiffness of the inclusion is obtained. A hybrid inclusion interaction model has been used to compute the effective elastic properties of polyethylene. The model results are compared with experimental data to assess the capabilities of the two‐ or three‐phase composite inclusion model. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys, 2010     

The influence of cavitation phenomenon on selected properties and mechanisms activated during tensile deformation of polypropylene

The cavitation phenomenon accompanies the tensile deformation of most semicrystalline polymers when negative pressure inside the amorphous phase is generated. Over the years, this phenomenon has been marginalized, due to the common belief that it does not have any significant influence on the properties or micromechanisms activated during plastic deformation of such materials. In this article, for the first time, the influence of the cavitation phenomenon on the value of yield stress/strain, the intensity of the lamellae fragmentation process, the reorientation dynamics of the crystalline and amorphous component, the degree of crystals orientation at selected stages of deformation, and the amount of heat generated as a result of activating characteristic micromechanisms of plastic deformation were systematically analyzed. The research has been conducted for cavitating/non‐cavitating polypropylene model systems with an identical structure of crystalline component during their tensile deformation. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2016 , 54, 1853–1868     

Structural relaxation in amorphous 1,2-dichloroethane studied by transformation between conformation isomers

Structural relaxation in amorphous 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) samples prepared by vapor deposition on cold substrates were studied by Raman scattering. The gauche and trans molecules of DCE were found to coexist in amorphous states immediately after the deposition, and structural relaxation occurred with temperature elevation before crystallization. Mole fraction of the gauche isomer increased during this relaxation process, although trans is the stable isomer in gaseous and crystalline states. At the final amorphous stage immediately before crystallization, the gauche mole fraction was close to the mole fraction of the supercooled liquid state. It was also found that trans molecules located at positions with lower density were more easily transformed into the gauche conformation, while the distribution of the local structure around the resultant gauche molecules remained almost unchanged during the structural relaxation. Such behaviors of amorphous DCE are discussed from the viewpoint of the characteristic molecular structure of DCE.     

Influence of different linkage groups in biphenyl mesogenic core on phase behaviors of mesogen‐jacketed liquid crystalline polymers

The work focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of a series of mesogen‐jacketed liquid crystalline polymers (MJLCPs) based on the octyl substituted biphenyl mesogenic core through different linkage groups. The molecular characterizations of the polymers obtained by conventional free radical polymerization were performed with ¹H NMR, gel permeation chromatography, and thermogravimetric analysis. Their thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC) behaviors were investigated in detail by a combination of various techniques, such as polarized light microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and 1D and 2D wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction. Our results showed that all the polymers were thermally stable, and their LC phases were greatly dependent on the linking groups between the biphenyl mesogenic core and terminal alkyl group substituent. Polymers with ether/ester or ether linkage group exhibited an unusual phase behavior with temperature increasing, tetragonal columnar nematic LC phase, or columnar nematic phase developed at high temperatures for the polymers transformed into amorphous phase during cooling process, showing a re‐entrant phase behaviors. However, polymers with ester linkage group were not LC with temperature varied. It is illustrated that subtle changes in the molecular structure brought about tremendous variation of the LC phase properties for MJLCPs. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2013, 51, 2545–2554     

Effects of melting on dielectric relaxation in poly(hexamethylene sebacamide) (nylon 610)

In order to investigate the role of solid morphology on molecular relaxation in crystaline polymers, the effect of melting on the α relaxation in poly(hexamethylene sebacamide) (nylon 610) was measured dielectrically. It was found that the α loss peak was continuous into the melt with respect to location in the frequency-temperature domain and with respect to the shape of the peak. However, the strength of the process, as measured by the difference in the relaxed and unrelaxed dielectric constants, was discontinuous on melting, the process being much stronger in the melt. These observations are consistent with a two-phase model of discrete crystalline and amorphous regions. The relaxation takes place in the amorphous regions, and melting creates more of this material but does not greatly after its nature. The correlation of the amount of amorphous material as measured by dielectric relaxation with that infrared from density measurements is discussed for nylon610, polyoxymethylene, and poly(ethylene oxide).     

Local Transient Jamming in Stress Relaxation of Bulk Amorphous Polymers

Bulk amorphous polymers become stretched and parallel-aligned under loading stress,and their intermolecular cooperation slows down the subsequent stress relaxation process.By means of dynamic Monte Carlo simulations,we employed the linear viscoelastic Maxwell model for stress relaxation of single polymers and investigated their intermolecular cooperation in the stress relaxation process of stretched and parallel-aligned bulk amorphous polymers.We carried out thermal fluctuation analysis on the reproduced Debye relaxation and Arrhenius fluid behaviors of bulk polymers.We found a transient state with stretch-coil coexistence among polymers in the stress relaxation process.Further structure analysis revealed a scenario of local jamming at the transient state,resulting in an entropy barrier for stretch-coil transition of partial polymers.The microscopic mechanism of intermolecular cooperation appears as unique to polymer stress relaxation,which interprets the hydrodynamic interactions as one of essential factors raising a high viscosity in bulk amorphous polymers.Our simulations set up a platform of molecular modeling in the study of polymer stress relaxation,which brought new insights into polymer dynamics and the related mechanical/rheological properties.