Crystallization of Poly(ethylene oxide) and Melt-Miscible PEO Blends
Crystallization of Poly(ethylene oxide) and Melt-Miscible PEO Blends
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DOI:
10.1021/ma981169o
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发表时间:
1999-02
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5.5
通讯作者:
Limin Wu;M. Lisowski;S. Talibuddin;J. Runt
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作者:
Limin Wu;M. Lisowski;S. Talibuddin;J. Runt
Spherulitic growth rates for poly(ethylene oxide) and four model, melt-miscible blends were measured over a range of crystallization temperatures. The miscible diluents fall into two classes: those exhibiting relatively weak intermolecular interactions with PEO and those exhibiting strong interactions. Generally, at a given crystallization temperature, growth rates for blends with the strongly interacting polymers are considerably lower than those with weakly interacting polymers with comparable Tgs. To a first approximation, growth rates for PEO and the blends can be “superposed” when normalized by the degree of supercooling and T − Tg. In addition, at higher Tc and diluent concentrations, particularly for blends with strongly interacting diluents, the growth rate slows from G ∝ t0 to G ∝ t-1/2, consistent with a crossover to diffusion-controlled growth. Analysis of PEO growth rates using the LHM model yields σe ∼ 40 ergs/cm2 for crystallization in regime II. For the blends, the mobility as a function o...