Differential Scanning Calorimetry Evidence for the Existence of a First-Order Thermal Transition in Ultraoriented at-Poly(acrylonitrile)
Differential Scanning Calorimetry Evidence for the Existence of a First-Order Thermal Transition in Ultraoriented at-Poly(acrylonitrile)
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差示扫描量热法证明超取向聚(丙烯腈)中存在一级热转变
DOI:
10.1021/ma971248k
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发表时间:
1998
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
R. Porter
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作者:
D. Sawai;T. Kanamoto;R. Porter
Introduction. It has been shown that gel films of ultrahigh molecular weight (UHMW) atactic poly (acrylonitrile)(at-PAN) are ultradrawable to a total draw ratio (DRt)< 110-160 by a two-stage draw technique. 1, 2 DRt is the product of draw ratios in the two stages. Such highly drawn samples show an extreme morphology, indicated by a high chain orientation function (fc) 0.996) and a high tensile modulus (28 GPa), comparable to the uncertain X-ray crystal modulus. 3 Such ultraoriented samples are found to exhibit a crystal/crystal transition from orthorhombic to hexagonal chain packing around 150 C, as determined from the temperature variations of the X-ray equatorial reflections around 2θ) 17 (Cu KR radiation). 1The relaxation and/or thermal transitions in this polymer have been extensively studied by several techniques, including dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), 4, 5 dielectric measurements, 6 infrared absorption spectroscopy, 7 birefringence, 8 and X-ray diffraction. 9-11 These studies report the existence of relaxations around 100 and 150 C, which correspond to the molecular motion in (para) crystalline regions and that in noncrystalline regions (glass transition), respectively. However, no report has been published on any first-order thermal transition in at-PAN, studied by DSC. In this Communication, we report differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and DMA studies on at-PAN films having a wide range of DRt (1-100). A first-order thermal transition was clearly found at 142-150 C on DSC heating scans only in ultradrawn samples of DRt g 60. This transition is ascribed to the reversible crystal/crystal transition, revealed by an X-ray diffraction study. 1 The contribution of this transition to the dynamic storage modulus, E′, and tan δ peak is also discussed.