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Effects of solvents and temperature on spherulites of self-assembled phloroglucinol tristearate
Authors:Yawen Yao  Sabine Rosenfeldt  Kai Zhang
Affiliation:1. Wood Technology and Wood Chemistry, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany2. Department of Chemistry and Bavarian Polymer Institute, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
Abstract:Herein, phloroglucinol tristearate (PhgTS) was used to study the crystallization process due to its unique symmetric structure containing a benzene ring and three aliphatic chains. Spherulites of crystallized PhgTS from four solvents under diverse conditions were analyzed in detail and their formation process was studied. Maltese cross is shown by PhgTS spherulites obtained from aprotic solvents via polarized optical microscopy. In comparison, no Maltese cross can be observed from branch-like crystals formed from protic solvents. Independent on the microscaled morphology, lamellae were found to be the basic blocks constructing both PhgTS spherulites and branch-like crystals, which were formed predominantly by stacked PhgTS molecules. Although differential characters of the solvents did not affect the formation of lamellas, the solvents played a crucial role in the formation of self-assembled microscaled morphologies. In particular, the morphologies of spherulites were strongly affected by the concentration of PhgTS solutions, surrounding temperature and evaporation rate of solvents. Generally, a higher concentration of PhgTS led to more homogeneous spherulites, a lower evaporation rate resulted in more compact spherulites, and a higher surrounding temperature generated preferentially more ring-banded spherulites of PhgTS.
Keywords:phloroglucinol  tristearate  aprotic and protic solvent  self-assembly  spherulites  
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