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Xu G, Shi WF, Hu P, Mo SP (2005a) European Polymer Journal 41(8), 1828-1837.
Date: 2011-08-17   Author: SKLFS  ,   Source: WOS  ,
 

Xu G, Shi WF, Hu P, Mo SP (2005a) Crystallization kinetics of polypropylene with hyperbranched polyurethane acrylate being used as a toughening agent. European Polymer Journal 41(8), 1828-1837. [In English]

Web link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2005.02.037

Keywords:

polypropylene, hyperbranched, crystallization kinetics, DSC, anhydride grafted polypropylene, nonisothermal crystallization, melting, behavior, poly(3-dodecylthiophene), nanocomposites, morphology,

Abstract: The crystallization kinetics of polypropylene (PP) with hyperbranched polyurethane acrylate (HUA) being used as a toughening agent was studied by isothermal and nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The presence of a small amount of HUA (2-7%) remarkably influences the crystallizability of PP. An addition of HUA leads to an increase in the number of effective nuclei, thus resulting in an increase of crystallization rate and a stronger trend of instantaneous three-dimensional growth. For isothermal crystallization, Avrami exponents were determined to be about 2.97 for pure PP and 3.51 for the HUA/PP blend containing 5% HUA (HUA-PP). The half crystallization time (t(1/2)) of pure PP was measured to be 8.43 min, while being 3.28 min for HUA-PP at the crystallization temperature of 132 degrees C. The nonisothermal crystallization kinetics of HUA/PP blends was analyzed by Avrami, Ozawa and Kissinger methods. It has also been proved that an addition of HUA could increase the crystallization rate of PP. Moreover, the crystallization activation energies of pure PP and HUA-PP were estimated by Kissinger and Friedman methods. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

 
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