Crystallization and melting behavior of the soft and hard segments in poly(ester-ether)s. I. Ethylene oxide-ethylene terephthalate segmented copolymers

✍ Scribed by D. Z. Ma; M. Z. Wang; M. C. Zhao; X. Y. Zhang; X. L. Luo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-6266
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0488(19991101)37:21<2918::aid-polb2>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

The crystallization and melting behavior of a series of ethylene oxideethylene terephthalate (EOET) segmented copolymers with different soft segment molecular weight and hard segment weight content were studied by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and polarized microscope. The crystallizability of both the hard and the soft segments became worse than that of the corresponding homopolymers due to the interactions of the different segments. The crystallizability of the soft segments is mainly determined by the soft segment molecular weight, but is affected greatly by the content and the crystallinity of the hard segments. Conversely, the soft segment length and content also have a great effect on the crystallization of the hard segments. However, the melting points of the hard segments are determined by the average hard segment length.