Journal
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
Volume 355, Issue 1, Pages 151-158Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2012.06.030
Keywords
Crystal morphology; Crystal structure; Optical microscopy; X-ray diffraction; Growth from melt; Polymers
Funding
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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The homo-polypropylenes and heterophasic ethylene-propylene copolymers (EP-HECO) were prepared by the non-isothermal and isothermal crystallization methods. The crystal structure and crystal phase were detected by the wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD). The morphology of the spherulite growth process was observed under a polarized optical microscope (POM) with a hot stage. The melting behavior was performed by the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). It was found that the restricted ethylene segment in the long propylene sequences could act as a heterogeneous nucleating agent of beta phase only when the crystallization temperature was very high. PP with long molecular chain had more polymer sequences entering crystal lattice to form large lamellar thickness. Nucleation and spherulitic growth occurred at the same time. Both the final spherulite size and the crystallinity of iPP were related to the melt flow rate. When samples crystallized isothermally at a very high temperature, shorter molecular chain would crystallize into some small-size defect crystals, and this resulted in a multiple melting behavior in the DSC endotherm. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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