In our current work, the effect of the shear temperature on the growth of β-crystal in isotactic polypropylene（iPP） with β-nucleating agent is investigated by means of in situ two-dimensional wide-angle X-ray diff...In our current work, the effect of the shear temperature on the growth of β-crystal in isotactic polypropylene（iPP） with β-nucleating agent is investigated by means of in situ two-dimensional wide-angle X-ray diffraction（2 D-WAXD）. At low shear temperatures, the formed shear-induced oriented precursors are hard to relax back to random coiled state due to the weak mobility of molecular chains. Therefore, plenty of oriented α-crystals are induced by shear-induced oriented precursors, while β-crystal is greatly depressed. As the shear temperature increases, oriented β-crystal gradually increases along with the decrease of α-crystal. It is deduced that the shear temperature at which the content of β-crystal increases to the（maximum） value found in quiescent crystallization is almost the same as that at which the accelerating effect of flow on crystallization kinetics is completely erased. Our work manifests its significance in regulating β-crystal and thus in the structure and property manipulation of i PP.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51473135,51503170 and 21676217)the Opening State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering(Sichuan University)(No.sklpme 2015-4-22)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.3102016BJY01)
文摘In our current work, the effect of the shear temperature on the growth of β-crystal in isotactic polypropylene（iPP） with β-nucleating agent is investigated by means of in situ two-dimensional wide-angle X-ray diffraction（2 D-WAXD）. At low shear temperatures, the formed shear-induced oriented precursors are hard to relax back to random coiled state due to the weak mobility of molecular chains. Therefore, plenty of oriented α-crystals are induced by shear-induced oriented precursors, while β-crystal is greatly depressed. As the shear temperature increases, oriented β-crystal gradually increases along with the decrease of α-crystal. It is deduced that the shear temperature at which the content of β-crystal increases to the（maximum） value found in quiescent crystallization is almost the same as that at which the accelerating effect of flow on crystallization kinetics is completely erased. Our work manifests its significance in regulating β-crystal and thus in the structure and property manipulation of i PP.
