Open AccessTranscrystallinity versus spherulitic crystallization in polyamide 66: An experimental study
Author(s) -
Freire Lionel,
Combeaud Christelle,
Monge Gabriel,
Billon Noëlle,
Haudin JeanMarc
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
polymer crystallization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2573-7619
DOI - 10.1002/pcr2.10028
Subject(s) - crystallization , differential scanning calorimetry , kinetics , crystallization of polymers , polyamide , materials science , polymer , composite material , thermodynamics , physics , quantum mechanics
The crystallization of 3 polyamides 66 has been studied by optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Nonisothermal crystallization kinetics has been analyzed using Ozawa's equation. Two polymers have close behaviors with a crystallization mainly spherulitic. The third one, which has the highest molar mass, is subject to intense transcrystallinity, which disturbs the crystallization kinetics (shoulder on the DSC curves and low Avrami exponent). For this polymer, original methods based on a detailed analysis of transcrystallinity have been applied to measure crystal growth rate and to determine the “intrinsic” crystallization kinetics, that is, not polluted by transcrystallinity.