Journal
JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 66, Issue 2, Pages 523-531Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013121102536
Keywords
DSC; dynamic crystallization; nucleation; poly(propylene)
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The addition of nucleating agents to semicrystalline polymers is largely used in the processing industry of plastic materials to improve some properties of polymers as well as for economical and technological reasons. In this work, the influence of tale concentration on the nucleation efficiency of poly(propylene) (PP), as well as on the non-isothermal kinetics of the crystallization of that system were determined by differential scanning calorimetry (I)SQ. The nucleating efficiency was determined by Fillon's method, and the dynamic nucleation by Ozawa's method at cooing rates of 2, 5 and 10 degreesC min(-1). The results show that both the degree of crystallinity and the crystallization temperature increase with the filler content and decrease at higher cooling rates and that Ozawa's (n') exponent and the nucleation efficiency increase with temperature and filler content. It was also shown that the nucleating efficiency of talc in poly(propylene) is comparable to the best heterogeneous nucleating agents available.
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