N-乙基壳聚糖的针状结晶

在N 乙基壳聚糖的甲酸溶液浇铸膜中观察到高分子少有的针状晶体 .从球晶经后结晶得到的针状晶体为长条矩形 ,典型尺寸为～ 5 0 μm× 2～ 5 μm× 1～ 2 μm ,高分子链平行于晶体长轴 .针状晶体首先出现在球晶的核心处 ,继而出现在球晶微纤每个树枝状分叉处 ,最后才遍布球晶各处 .针状晶体可以看成是高分子伸直链结晶的一种 .浇铸膜吸潮实际上形成了超浓溶液 (浓度 >80wt% ) ,从而分子链可以运动而后结晶成针状晶体     

PET/PC共混体系的酯交换反应对其高压结晶行为的影响

利用转矩流变仪、DSC、SEM及WAXD等表征手段研究了PET/PC共混体系的酯交换反应对其高压结晶行为的影响.SEM观察表明,PET和PC熔混时的酯交换反应有利于PET/PC体系在高压结晶时生成厚度较大的伸直链晶体,且可以促进其高压下酯交换反应的发生.楔形伸直链晶体和弯曲伸直链晶体的存在证明链滑移扩散和酯交换反应两种机制对体系中聚酯伸直链晶体的增厚有贡献.拟合分峰法和War-ren-Averbach傅里叶分析法的计算结果表明,随PET/PC体系熔混时酯交换反应程度的增加,高压结晶共混物的结晶度降低,PET的平均微晶尺寸增大,点阵畸变平均值则减小,而微晶尺寸分布变宽.提出了在共聚物组分都具备结晶能力时,结晶诱导化学反应和化学反应诱导结晶两种过程在一定条件下可同时发生的观点.     

PET分子量对PET/PC共混体系高压结晶行为的影响

以往高压合成的聚合物伸直链晶体尺寸较小且合成时间过长,不能满足单晶应用的要求。加入10wt%PC于不同分子量的PET中,采用自制高压装置,制备共混体系,用WAXD,SEM,DSC等表征手段,研究了PET/PC共混体系在高压下的结晶行为。研究结果表明:通过PET/PC体系在高压下化学反应诱导的自组装,不同分子量PET的PET/PC共混体系均在较短的时间内生成了尺寸较大的聚酯伸直链晶体,对应于三斜晶系,其中PET/PC体系最适于大尺寸伸直链晶体的合成,仅需6hr时间即生成PE需200hr方可合成的40μm厚度的伸直链晶体。同时提出了PET1/PC体系中伸直链晶体高温下缺陷自我修复模型。     

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.     

剪切条件下等规聚丙烯的结晶行为

聚丙烯是工业中应用最广泛的聚合物。聚丙烯在静态结晶时生成球晶，剪切后会生成排核，最终长成柱晶或纤维晶；在强剪切条件下会生成串晶。聚丙烯是一种存在多种晶型的聚合物，α型晶是热动力学最稳定的晶型，在一般实验条件下很难得到其他晶型；在剪切条件下聚丙烯会生成β晶-热动力学亚稳晶型。剪切会显著影响聚丙烯的结晶动力学：增加球晶的生长速率，缩短结晶诱导时间，增加活化晶核密度。人们提出了许多模型来解释剪切加速结晶动力学的实验现象，但是都有不足之处。     

聚丙烯结晶行为的PVT研究

通过受限液体PVT测量技术对等规聚丙烯的结晶行为进行了研究,采用PVT等压测量模式描述了不同压力场下半结晶聚合物的结晶过程.结果表明,随着压力的升高,等规聚丙烯分子链间的相互作用增强,使得等规聚丙烯分子链段更容易排入晶格中,这是结晶温度和结晶速度升高的主要因素.通过对数据拟合,建立了压力对等规聚丙烯结晶过程参数的影响公式.对Jeziorny结晶动力学模型进行改进,并研究了压力对等规聚丙烯结晶动力学的影响,结果发现,当结晶度大于0.08时,结晶动力学拟合曲线呈较好的线性,分析结果可以对结晶过程的变化机理进行合理地预测,在小于200 MPa压力环境下,等规聚丙烯的结晶生长方式仍是球晶生长模式,晶体的生长符合二维片晶生长方式,自由体积的减小是结晶速率加快的主要原因之一.     

结晶性芳香聚酯高压结晶行为研究进展

运用高压极限手段研究聚合物的结构、形态和性能是20世纪60年代以来兴起的一项聚合物前沿课题。本文主要结合作者自己的研究工作，重点叙述聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯(PET)的高压结晶行为研究，包括温度、压力、时间及分子量对PET高压结晶行为的影响，高压结晶PET的形态。以及对PET伸直链晶体结晶机理的探讨，同时简要介绍了对其它结晶性芳香聚酯诸如聚对苯二甲酸丁二醇酯(PBT)及聚对萘二甲酸乙二醇酯(PEN)的高压结晶行为研究，反映了该领域的研究概况和最新进展。并对今后的研究提出了展望。     

链缠结对聚合物结晶行为的影响

链缠结是聚合物分子链相互作用的一种形式 ,它主要影响分子链的长程运动 .自链缠结的概念被提出以来 ,人们对聚合物粘弹性、流变行为和网络平衡力学等进行了理论研究和实验验证 .然而 ,在聚合物结晶领域 ,链缠结对结晶过程的影响一直存在着很大的争论 .Flory等 [1] 认为 ,聚合物结晶时分子链根本没有足够的时间进行构象调整 ,分子链进入晶格后 ,使大量的缠结链段被挤入非晶区 ,并由此建立了聚合物结晶“插线板”模型 .Hoffman等 [2 ]根据单根分子链从过冷熔体“卷饶”到晶体前沿所需的时间进行估算 ,结果比 Flory预言的快约 3～ 5个数量级…     

聚3-羟基丁酸酯从熔体薄膜及溶液中形成的球晶结构及生长机理

研究了聚3-羟基丁酸酯（PHB）分别从熔体薄膜和溶液中结晶时的球晶结构和形态,提出了在两种不同结晶条件下环带球晶的形成机理．当PHB从熔体薄膜中结晶时,由于二维生长的限制,晶体的不连续生长是球晶形成环带结构的主要原因,而当PHB从溶液中结晶时,片晶生长的扭曲取向导致了球晶环带结构的形成．     

PET伸直链结晶体的研究进展

对聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯（PET）在特定的结晶条件下是否生成伸直链晶体进行了论证，系统总结了伸直链晶体形成的证据，并讨论了PET伸直链晶体形成的机理。     

Characterization of the structure and organization of β-form crystals in type III and type IV isotactic polypropylene spherulites

Anisotropic growth of β-form crystals of isotactic polypropylene in type III and type IV spherulites has made possible microanalysis of the unit cell structure, optical properties, and crystal arrangement within the spherulites. Micro x-ray studies of the type III and type IV spherulites show that interspherulitic β-form crystals have a hexagonal unit cell with dimensions; a = 19.08 Å and c = 6.49 Å. The intrinsic refractive indices of these β-form crystals are 1.506 along the a axis and 1.536 along the c axis. The organization of the crystals within the spherulites and the optical properties of the spherulites are also quantitatively evaluated. Both the type III and type IV spherulites have the a axis of the crystal radial while the crystals rotate randomly around the type III spherulite radii and periodically around the type IV spherulite radii. The radial refractive index for both the type III and type IV spherulites has the same value of 1.496. The tangential refractive index of the type III spherulite has a constant value of 1.509; it varies periodically between a minimum of 1.496 and a maximum of 1.519 in the type IV spherulite. Microtechniques such as micro x-ray diffraction, interference microscopy, birefringence, and optical microscopy were required for acquisition of the data.     

Morphology and interpenetrated growth of spherulites in miscible poly(ethylene succinate)/poly(ethylene oxide) blends

Morphology development and growth process of spherulites in miscible poly(ethylene succinate)/poly(ethylene oxide) blends are studied by means of polarizing optical microscopy and atom force microscopy in this paper. Thin films with different film thicknesses were used to follow the growth processes of spherulites and dendrites. It is shown that, when one component spherulite grows, the other component in the melt is always excluded from the spherulite. The excluded component may reenter into the spherulite through diffusion depending on amorphous volume fraction of spherulite and segmental mobility of molecules, which leads to the occurrence of interpenetrated growth. This mechanism was analyzed in detail in this paper.     

Analysis of Polymorphism and Dual Crystalline Morphologies in Poly(hexamethylene terephthalate)

Summary: The polymorphisms in poly(hexamethylene terephthalate) (PHT), along with their associated melting and spherulite morphologies, were examined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction (WAXD), and polarized‐light microscopy (PLM). The morphology and crystal cells were dependent on the temperature of crystallization. When melt‐crystallized at low temperatures (90–135 °C), PHT showed at least five melting peaks and two re‐crystallization peaks upon DSC scanning, and the samples displayed various fractions of both α and β crystals. However, only a single melting peak was obtained in PHT melt‐crystallized at 140 °C or above, which displayed a single type of β crystal. In addition, two different forms of spherulites were identified in melt‐crystallized PHT, with one being a typical Maltese‐cross spherulite containing the α crystal, and the other being a dendrite‐type packed mainly with the β crystal. This study provides timely evidence for a critical interpretation of the relationship between multiple melting and polymorphisms (unit cells and spherulites) in polymers, including semi‐crystalline polyesters.

WAXD diffractograms for PHT melt‐crystallized at 140 °C, revealing a single type of β‐crystal cell.     

Extended-chain crystals. V. Thermal analysis and electron microscopy of the melting process in polyethylene

Differential thermal analysis and electron microscopy of partially molten, extended-chain polyethylene crystals, grown under elevated pressure, was performed. It could be shown that melting peaks on the low temperature side of the main melting peak are due to narrowly distributed, low molecular weight polymer segregated in extended-chain crystals. Superheating of crystals before melting increased with molecular weight and chain extension. The melting mechanism of extended chain crystals was shown to be a successive peeling off of chains which leaves the chain extension constant up to melting of the last crystal trace.     

Crystal orientation in a semicrystalline polymer in relation to deformation of polymer spherulites. III. Small-angle light scattering

Small-angle polarized light scattering from a deformed three-dimensional spherulite is formulated on the basis of the deformation model proposed in Part II of this series. The intensity distribution of scattered light is discussed chiefly for the cross-polarization condition, the so-called H_v polarization, as a function of elongation of the spherulite. In the undeformed state, the scattered intensity distribution forms the typical fourleaf clover pattern, and the intensity decreases with increasing fraction of crystals oriented randomly (type R crystals) within the crystal lamellae of the spherulites. In a system composed of type R crystals and folded-chain crystals (type B crystals) within the lamellae, the four-leaf pattern moves to the horizontal zone near the equator with increasing elongation of the spherulite, and, simultaneously, extends to some extent to the vertical zone near the meridional direction as a parameter measuring the ease of lamellar untwisting increases. In a system composed, in addition to type R and type B crystals, of crystals transformed from type B to type C_a and type C_r due to tilting and unfolding of polymer chains, respectively, within the crystal lamellae an eight-leaf pattern appears, even at small elongation up to about 30%. Each lobe of the eight-leaf pattern undergoes a characteristic change with increasing elongation. In both systems, the scattered intensity increases with sharpening of orientation distribution of crystals within the crystal lamellae.     

Surface and interior views on origins of two types of banded spherulites in poly(nonamethylene terephthalate)

Top-surface and three-dimensional views of Type-1 and Type-2 of ring-banded spherulites in poly(nonamethylene terephthalate) (PNT) in thicker bulk crystallized on a nucleating potassium bromide (KBr) substrate were examined using various microscopy techniques: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), polarized-optical microscopy (POM), and atomic-force microscopy (AFM). In PNT crystallized at higher crystallization temperature (T(c)) with heterogeneous nucleating substrate, typically two types of ring-banded spherulites are present that differ significantly in patterns and ring spacings: Type-1 Type-2 (single- and double-ring-banded spherulites). Three-dimensional view on fractured spherulites in bulk PNT samples reveals that the single-ring-banded spherulite (Type-1) tends to be well-rounded spheres as they are nucleated homogeneously from bulk; the double-ring-banded spherulite (Type-2) is concentric hemisphere or truncated sphere shells owing to be nucleated from bottom. With confined thickness of films, the 3-D hemispheres in PNT may become truncated into multi-shell annular cones or arcs when thickness or growth is restricted. Based on the top-surface vs. interior views of banded lamellar assembly, origins and inner structures of dual types of ring bands in PNT were examined in greater details.     

Non‐Radial Growth of Helical Homopolymer Crystals: Breaking the Paradigm of the Polymer Spherulite Microstructure

Radial symmetry is essential for the conventional view of the polymer spherulite microstructure. Typically it is assumed that, in the course of the spherulite morphogenesis, the lamellar crystals grow radially. Using submicron X‐ray diffraction, it is shown that in banded spherulites of poly(propylene adipate) the crystals have the shape of a helix with flat‐on crystals winding around a virtual cylinder of about 6 µm in diameter. The helix angle of 30° implies that the crystal growth direction is tilted away from the spherulite radius by this angle. The implications of the helical crystal shape contradict the paradigm of the spherulitic microstructure. The radial growth rate of such spherulites does not correspond to the crystal growth rate, but to the propagation rate of the virtual cylinder the ribbons wind around.

     

Melting and crystallization of poly(vinylidene fluride) under high pressure

Precise melting and crystallization temperatures of extended-chain and folded-chain crystals of form I and folded-chain crystals of form II poly(vinylidene fluoride) under high pressure have been obtained by microdifferential thermal analysis (DTA). Upon heating at pressures above 4000 kg/cm², the micro-DTA thermogram of form II crystallized from the melt at atmospheric pressure shows melting of the form II structure and the melting of the folded-chain and extended-chain crystals of form I, formed through recrystallization processes. These features were clarified by supplemental methods. The bandwidth seen in electron micrographs of the extended-chain crystal of form I obtained by crystallization under high pressure was in the range of 1500 to 2000 Å. At atmospheric pressure, the extended-chain crystal of form I melted at 207°C, approximately 17°C higher than the folded-chain crystal of form I and 31°C higher than the folded-chain crystal of form II.     

Spherulite morphology studies of N‐alkyl chitosan films cast from formic acid solutions

The films of N‐ethyl chitosan were prepared via the solution‐casting technique with formic acid as a solvent. The solutions with different concentrations (35 and 40 wt %) were prepared previously from dilute solution (1 wt %) via evaporating process. The crystalline morphology of these films was investigated by means of polarized optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Normal spherulites with a low growth rate formed in the casting films. The different morphologies of spherulite appeared in the films cast from the solutions with different concentrations. After further crystallizing for a few days, the spherulites were decorated by thousands of needlelike extended‐chain crystals, which had a typical size of ～50 μm (length) × 2～5 μm (width) × 1～2 μm (height) in the central part of the spherulite, but a typical size of ～5 μm (lenght)× 1～2 μm (width) × 1～2 μm (height) in the fringe part of the spherulite. The real concentration for crystallization was determined to be 65–82 wt%. Thus, the crystallization actually appeared in supersaturated solution. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 41: 2033–2038, 2003     

Composition distributions within poly(vinylidene fluoride) spherulites as grown in blends with poly(methyl methacrylate)

Upon crystalline solidification of one component in a homogeneously molten polymer blend, composition profiles develop outside (i.e., in the rest melt) and behind (i.e., within the spherulites) the crystal growth front. The present article is devoted to the detailed verification and the interpretation of these distributions and their temporal development inside growing spherulites. To this end, the energy dispersive X‐ray emission (EDX) of suitable elements has been recorded locally resolved in a scanning electron microscope and evaluated correspondingly. The investigations were performed at the melt homogeneous blend of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) as crystallizing and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as steadily amorphous component. If the spherulites are not volume filling, the mean PMMA content 〈?_PMMA〉 inside the PVDF spherulites is for all blends about 0.2 below the starting composition. ?_PMMA increases however slightly from the center of a spherulite to its border. That increase reflects the PMMA concentration in front of the spherulite surface, which increases likewise with time, and is clearly above the initial composition. There is at the spherulite surface, consequently, a remarkable jump in composition from the spherulite internal to its amorphous surroundings. It may amount up to 0.5. With volume filling spherulites, a slight variation of the composition from the center of a spherulite to its border is observed, too. This proves that also at these conditions composition profiles develop in the spherulite's surroundings. They remain however so weak that they do not inhibit crystallization even in its later stages. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 44: 338–346, 2006