a.Advanced Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
b.Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of New Energy and Materials, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
jun-xu@tsinghua.edu.cn (J.X.)
bhguo@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (B.H.G.)
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Zhi-Ning Xie, Hai-Mu Ye, Tong Chen, et al. Melting and Annealing Peak Temperatures of Poly(butylene succinate) on the Same Hoffman-Weeks Plot Parallel to
Zhi-Ning Xie, Hai-Mu Ye, Tong Chen, et al. Melting and Annealing Peak Temperatures of Poly(butylene succinate) on the Same Hoffman-Weeks Plot Parallel to
The crystallization and melting behavior of polymers is of theoretical importance. In this work, poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) was selected as an example to study such behavior at low supercooling ,via, introduction of the extended-chain crystal (ECC) of the same polymer as nucleating agent. The crystallization of PBS with its ECC as nucleating agent in a wide temperature range (90–127 °C) and the following melting behavior were studied. It is revealed that the melting point (,T,m, for ,T,c,≥113 °C) and the annealing peak temperature (,T,a, for ,T,c,=90–100 °C) show similar asymptotic behavior. Both ,T,m, and ,T,a, approach to a value of ,ca,. 3.3 °C higher than the corresponding ,T,c, when the crystallization time ,t,c, approaches the starting point. That is to say, the Hoffman-Weeks plot is parallel to ,T,m,=,T,c, line. The crystallization line became parallel to the melting line when PBS was crystallized at ,T,c, higher than 102 °C. Based on these results, we propose that the parallel relationship and the intrinsic similarity between the ,T,a, and the ,T,m, observed at the two ends of the ,T,c, range could be attributed to the metastable crystals formed at the beginning of crystallization.
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