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Calorimetric and rheokinetic analyses merged to capture crystallization kinetics in polyamide/clay nanocomposites: Revisiting predictability of models
Author(s) -
Kermaniyan Tayebeh Sadat,
Garmabi Hamid,
Saeb Mohammad Reza
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.46364
Subject(s) - crystallization , materials science , differential scanning calorimetry , thermodynamics , isothermal process , rheometry , crystallinity , crystallization of polymers , avrami equation , nanocomposite , rheometer , kinetics , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , polymer , composite material , rheology , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
ABSTRACT Crystallization kinetics of polymer/clay systems was the subject of numerous investigations, but still there are some ambiguities in understanding thermal behavior of such systems under isothermal and nonisothermal circumstances. In this work, isothermal rheokinetic and nonisothermal calorimetric analyses are combined to demonstrate crystallization kinetics of polyamide6/nanoclay (PA6/NC) nanocomposites. As the main outcome of this work, we detected different regimes of crystallization and compared them by both isothermal dynamic rheometry and nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), which has not been simultaneously addressed yet. A novel analysis, somehow different from the common ones, is used to convert the storage modulus data to crystallinity values leading to more reasonable Avrami parameters in isothermal crystallization. It was found based on isothermal rheokinetic studies that increase of NC content and shear rate are responsible for erratic behavior of Avrami exponent and crystallization rates. Optimistically, however, isothermal crystallization by rheometer was confirmed by DSC. Nonisothermal calorimetric evaluations suggested an accelerated crystallization of PA6 upon increasing NC content and cooling rate. The crystallization behavior was quantified applying Ozawa ( r 2 between 0.070 and 0.975), and combinatorial Avrami–Ozawa ( r 2 between 0.984 and 0.998) models, where the latter appeared more appropriate for demonstration of nonisothermal crystallization of PA6/NC nanocomposites. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018 , 135 , 46364.