Crystallization kinetics of poly(butylene terephthalate) and its talc composites |
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| Authors: | Yoshitomo Furushima Sadanori Kumazawa Hideyuki Umetsu Akihiko Toda Evgeny Zhuravlev Andreas Wurm Christoph Schick |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Materials Characterization Laboratories, Toray Research Center Inc, Otsu, Shiga, Japan;2. Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany;3. Competence Center CALOR, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany;4. R&D Planning Department, Toray Industries, Inc, Otsu, Shiga, Japan;5. Plastics Research Laboratory, Chemicals Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc, Minatoku, Nagoya, Japan;6. Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi‐Hiroshima, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Crystallization kinetics of poly (butylene terephthalate) (non‐talc‐PBT) and its 0.1 wt % talc composites (talc‐PBT) was determined for a wide range of cooling rates and isothermal temperatures. The critical cooling rate to suppress crystallization is 2000 K s?1 for non‐talc‐PBT and 7000 K s?1 for talc‐PBT. The cooling rate dependence of the total enthalpy change and heating rate dependence of enthalpy of cold crystallization are quantitatively discussed on the basis of the Ozawa's method. For isothermal crystallization, the annealing‐temperature (T iso) dependence of crystallization half‐time (t 1/2) shows a bimodal curve with two minima. Talc shortens the t 1/2 at T iso above 340 K and acts as a heterogeneous nucleation agent. Tammann's approach revealed that the t 1/2 is shortened by pre‐nucleation for non‐talc‐PBT but not for talc‐PBT. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017 , 134 , 44739. |
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| Keywords: | crystallization kinetics properties and characterization thermal properties |
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