An optical microscope equipped with a video photograph system was used to follow the growth of spherulites. Under nitrogen atmosphere, the growth rates at 290 and 300ะC suggest that when the melt of PEEK has been equilibrated for 15 min at 400ะC, the subsequent crystallization behavior was nearly in
Analysis of crystallization kinetics of poly(ether ether ketone) by a nonisothermal method
โ Scribed by Ming Chen; Chia-Ting Chung
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-6266
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โฆ Synopsis
During cooling at a rate of 10ยฐC/min from the melt state of PEEK we have followed the growth of spherulites using an optical microscope equipped with a camera. The isothermal growth rates of crystallization in the temperature range of 266 -308ยฐC could be estimated by means of a differential equation. These continuous growth rate data were used further for kinetic analysis, which indicated that PEEK exhibited an unmistakable regime II 3 III transition at 296ยฐC. The results compared favorably with those obtained by the traditional isothermal method, which is time consuming. Due to chain folding, the Thomas-Staveley constant should be closer to 0.25 instead of 0.1 or 0.3.
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