New Insights into Lamellar Structure Development and SAXS/WAXD Sequence Appearance during Uniaxial Stretching of Amorphous Poly(ethylene terephthalate) above Glass Transition Temperature
New Insights into Lamellar Structure Development and SAXS/WAXD Sequence Appearance during Uniaxial Stretching of Amorphous Poly(ethylene terephthalate) above Glass Transition Temperature
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10.1021/ma702554t
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2008-03
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5.5
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D. Kawakami;C. Burger;S. Ran;C. Ávila‐Orta;I. Šics;B. Chu;S. Chiao;B. Hsiao;T. Kikutani
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D. Kawakami;C. Burger;S. Ran;C. Ávila‐Orta;I. Šics;B. Chu;S. Chiao;B. Hsiao;T. Kikutani
An in situ study of structure formation in amorphous poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) during uniaxial stretching at a temperature 30 °C above glass transition temperature was carried out using synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) techniques. Three major deformation-induced structure transitions were confirmed. (1) At small strains, the applied load increased initially but leveled off afterward. Sporadic isotropic crystallization without preferred orientation was observed by WAXD, where no hierarchical structure was seen by SAXS. (2) At intermediate strains, strain hardening took place. Although WAXD showed persistent progression of isotropic crystallization, SAXS indicated formation of a layered structure as well as a fibrillar domain in large scale. This behavior is not consistent with the mechanisms for shish-kebab or spinodal-assisted structure formation. Instead, it can be explained by flow-induced demixing of crystal and amorphous phases through la...