Effects of processing history and annealing on polymorphic structure of nylon-6/montmorillonite nanocomposites |
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Authors: | Shaobo Xie Huiju Liu Guangming Chen Meng Feng Huaili Qin Fosong Wang Mingshu Yang |
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Affiliation: | Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Joint Laboratory of Polymer Science and Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China |
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Abstract: | The effects of processing history and annealing treatment on the thermal property and polymorphic structure of nylon-6/clay nanocomposites (NCNs) have been investigated. The nanocomposites, including intercalated and exfoliated ones, were prepared by extruding nylon-6 (N6) with sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT) or organo-montmorillonite (OMMT), respectively. DSC analysis revealed multiple melting endotherms in either the extruded or the injection-molded N6 and NCNs samples. It has been observed that a small exothermic peak around 195 °C just before the lower melting peak in the skin regions. We demonstrated that this sub-Tm transition was directly related to the processing-induced shear stresses. WAXD analysis was further performed to characterize the polymorphic structure of injection-molded N6 and NCNs before and after annealing. Annealing at a temperature (80 °C) above the Tg of N6 resulted in increase of the absolute content of γ-form in the skin regions and of the relative content of γ-form in the core regions of NCNs. In particular, annealing only leaded to increase the fraction of γ-form in the exfoliated N6/OMMT nanocomposites, which might be related to a confining effect of MMT platelet on the polymer chains mobility. |
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Keywords: | Nylon-6 Nanocomposite Crystal structure |
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