Exclusion effect of carbon dioxide on the crystallization of polypropylene
Exclusion effect of carbon dioxide on the crystallization of polypropylene
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10.1002/polb.20076
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2004-05
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Takafumi Oda;H. Saito
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Takafumi Oda;H. Saito
We investigated the crystallization growth of isotactic polypropylene under carbon dioxide (CO2) at various CO2 pressures and temperatures by in situ observation with a digital high-fidelity microscope and a specially designed high-pressure visualized cell. The fibrils within the spherulite were distorted and branched by crystallization under CO2 at pressures higher than 2 MPa, and this suggested the exclusion of CO2 from the growth front of the fibrils. The spherulite growth rate (G) at 140 °C increased with the CO2 pressure, attained a maximum value around 0.3 MPa, and then decreased. Above 6 MPa, it became slower than that under air at the ambient pressure. An analysis of the crystallization kinetics by the Hoffman–Lauritzen theory revealed that the pressure dependence of G could be ascribed to the change in the transportation rate of crystallizable molecules (βg) with pressure; that is, βg increased and then decreased with pressure. The increase in βg at a low pressure was caused by the plasticizing effect of CO2, whereas the decrease in βg at a high pressure was due to the exclusion of CO2 from the crystal growth front. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 1565–1572, 2004