Self-nucleation Effect of Crystallization with Various Nucleating Agents

Dai Zhang; Rui-Jun Zhao; Gui-Qiu Ma; Zhe Ma

doi:10.1007/s10118-023-3014-3

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Self-nucleation Effect of Crystallization with Various Nucleating Agents

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2023-11-27

- Self-nucleation Effect of Crystallization with Various Nucleating Agents
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 41, Issue 12, Pages: 1912-1920(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Author bio：
  
  magq@tju.edu.cn (G.Q.M.)
  zhe.ma@tju.edu.cn (Z.M.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-023-3014-3
  CLC：
- Received：05 April 2023，
  
  Revised：2023-5-15，
  
  Accepted：28 May 2023，
  
  Online First：07 August 2023，
  
  Published：01 December 2023
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Zhang, D.; Zhao, R. J.; Ma, G. Q.; Ma, Z. Self-nucleation effect of crystallization with various nucleating agents. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1912–1920

Dai Zhang, Rui-Jun Zhao, Gui-Qiu Ma, et al. Self-nucleation Effect of Crystallization with Various Nucleating Agents[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(12): 1912-1920.
Zhang, D.; Zhao, R. J.; Ma, G. Q.; Ma, Z. Self-nucleation effect of crystallization with various nucleating agents. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1912–1920 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-3014-3.

Dai Zhang, Rui-Jun Zhao, Gui-Qiu Ma, et al. Self-nucleation Effect of Crystallization with Various Nucleating Agents[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(12): 1912-1920. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-3014-3.

摘要

This work found that α-nucleating agent talc and β-nucleating agent TMB-5 can accelerate the non-isothermal crystallization of polypropylene and change the temperature range of self-nucleation Domain II. In presence of TMB-5

the self-nucleation effect enhanced the formation of α-crystallite.

Abstract

In this work

the self-nucleation effect on crystallization was studied for polypropylene with various nucleating agents. The talc was employed to accelerate crystallization of monoclinic

-crystallites

while

′-dicyclohexyl-2

6-naphthalenedicarboxamide TMB-5 was used to accelerate the crystallization kinetics and also induce formation of trigonal

-crystallites. To induce self-nucleation effect

the occurrence criterion was assessed by the transition temperatures from various domains and the available temperature width. More importantly

the resulting influences of self-nucleation effect were quantified by the change of crystallization kinetics and the potential polymorphism variation. It was found that the

-nucleating agents of talc broadened the temperature window for inducing Domain II by elevating the transition temperature from Domain I to Domain II. Although

-nucleating agent (

-NA) of

′-dicyclohexyl-2

6-naphthalenedicarboxamide TMB-5 elevated cooling crystallization temperature obviously

the temperature window for Domain II was narrowed. It should be emphasized that in presence of

-NA TMB-5

the self-nucleation effect enhances the crystallization of

-crystallite

which show the competition with

-NA TMB-5. At last

the ternary PP/talc/TMB-5 blend was prepared with the same amounts of

-NA talc and

-NA TMB-5 and it exhibits a similar self-nucleation effect of crystallization

indicating the dominant role of

-NA TMB-5.

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