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Fluctuation-Assisted Crystallization: In a Simultaneous Phase Separation and Crystallization Polyolefin Blend System

✍ Scribed by Xiaohua Zhang; Zhigang Wang; Murugappan Muthukumar; Charles C. Han

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
193 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

Summary: The liquid‐liquid phase separation (LLPS) is often coupled with other ordering processes such as crystallization. In a polyolefin blend system, overwhelming changes in crystallization kinetics due to concentration fluctuation caused by spontaneous spinodal LLPS have been observed. Consequently, we are proposing a new mechanism of “fluctuation‐assisted crystallization”. In this process, the usual nucleation barrier could be overcome (or at least partially) by the spontaneous fluctuation growth of LLPS in the spinodal region.

Time‐resolved polarized optical micrographs for poly(ethylene‐co‐hexene) (PEH)/poly(ethylene‐co‐butene) (PEB) = 40:60 isothermally crystallized at 117 °C for 2 min after LLPS at 135 °C for the times shown and the nucleation rates at 117 °C as a function of LLPS time at 135 °C.

imageTime‐resolved polarized optical micrographs for poly(ethylene‐co‐hexene) (PEH)/poly(ethylene‐co‐butene) (PEB) = 40:60 isothermally crystallized at 117 °C for 2 min after LLPS at 135 °C for the times shown and the nucleation rates at 117 °C as a function of LLPS time at 135 °C.

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