Isothermal crystallization of isotactic polypropylene in dotriacontane. I: Effect of nucleating agent addition on overall crystallization kinetics

1993 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 513-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon B. A. Lim ◽  
Douglas R. Lloyd
e-Polymers ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue-fei Zhang ◽  
Xun Li ◽  
Xian-shan Wei

AbstractBicyclic [2,2,1] heptane di-carboxylate (commercial product name: HPN- 68) is a novel nucleating agent with high nucleation efficiency for isotactic polypropylene (iPP). In this paper, the non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of virgin iPP and iPP nucleated with HPN-68 were investigated by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).The Caze method was used to analyze the non-isothermal crystallization kinetics. The results show that addition of HPN-68 can increase the crystallization peak temperature (Tp) of iPP greatly under the same cooling rate. Under non-isothermal conditions, the addition of HPN-68 changes the spherulite growth pattern of iPP. For virgin iPP, the growth pattern is mainly spontaneous nucleation followed by three-dimensional spherulite growth, while for iPP nucleated with HPN-68, the growth pattern is mainly heterogeneous nucleation followed by three-dimensional spherulite growth.


2008 ◽  
Vol 472 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Naffakh ◽  
Zulima Martín ◽  
Carlos Marco ◽  
Marián A. Gómez ◽  
Ignacio Jiménez

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 1441-1450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linli Xu ◽  
Xiuju Zhang ◽  
Kai Xu ◽  
Shaoquan Lin ◽  
Mingcai Chen

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