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Authors Quattrosoldi, S. ; Androsch, R. ; Janke, A. ; Soccio, M. ; Lotti, N.
Title Enthalpy relaxation, crystal nucleation and crystal growth of biobased poly(butylene ssophthalate)
Date 18.01.2020
Number 58126
Abstract The crystallization behavior of fully biobased poly(butylene isophthalate) (PBI) has been investigated using calorimetric and microscopic techniques. PBI is an extremely slow crystallizing polymer that leads, after melt-crystallization, to the formation of lamellar crystals and rather large spherulites, due to the low nuclei density. Based upon quantitative analysis of the crystal-nucleation behavior at low temperatures near the glass transition, using Tammann’s two-stage nuclei development method, a nucleation pathway for an acceleration of the crystallization process and for tailoring the semicrystalline morphology is provided. Low-temperature annealing close to the glass transition temperature (Tg) leads to the formation of crystal nuclei, which grow to crystals at higher temperatures, and yield a much finer spherulitic superstructure, as obtained after direct melt-crystallization. Similarly to other slowly crystallizing polymers like poly(ethylene terephthalate) or poly(l-lactic acid), low-temperature crystal-nuclei formation at a timescale of hours/days is still too slow to allow non-spherulitic crystallization. The interplay between glass relaxation and crystal nucleation at temperatures slightly below Tg is discussed
Publisher Polymers
Wikidata
Citation Polymers 12 (2020) 235
DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/POLYM12010235
Tags poly(butylene isophthalate) biopolymer crystallization crystal nucleation crystal growth enthalpy relaxation semicrystalline morphology fast scanning chip calorimetry (fsc) tammann’s nuclei development method

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