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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 756-763Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.21257
Keywords
crystallization; kinetics (polym.); montmorillonite; polyamide 66; nanocomposites
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X-ray diffraction methods, DSC thermal analysis, and polarized light microscopy (PLM) were used to investigate the structural changes of nylon 66/clay nanocomposites. PA 66/clay nanocomposites were prepared by the method of melt intercalation. The results indicate that the addition of the intercalated organo-montmorillonite (OMMT) can induce generation of the beta-form crystal of PA 66 and substantially affect the arrangement of molecules in the alpha-form crystal, although the crystallinity scarcely changes. Also, the DSC results indicate that the addition of OMMT in the PA 66 matrix leads to increases of crystallization temperatures and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the exothermic peaks. Moreover, the viscosity factor is the main influence on FWHM of the exothermic peaks of PA 66/clay nanocomposites. The results of nonisothermal crystallization kinetics show that OMMT has the effect of heterogeneous nucleation and leads to the decrease of the size of the spherocrystal. The heterogeneous nucleation effects of OMMTs influence the mechanism of crystallization and the growth mode of PA 66 crystals. PLM photographs verify that the size of spherocrystal is decreased and visually confirm the theory of crystallization kinetics. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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