The crystallization and melting behaviors of linear polylactic acid (PLA) treated by compressed CO(2) was investigated. The isothermal crystallization test indicated that while PLA exhibited very low crystallization kinetics under atmospheric pressure, CO(2) exposure significantly increased PLA's crystallization rate; a high crystallinity of 16.5% was achieved after CO(2) treatment for only 1 m...

The crystallization kinetics of an Al89La6Ni5 amorphous alloy were studied by thermal analysis. Both continuous heating and isothermal DSC traces showed that the Al89La6Ni5 amorphous alloy undergoes a two-stage crystallization process upon heating. The ®rst transformation, in which fcc-Al precipitates from the amorphous matrix, is a nucleation and three-dimensional di€usion-controlled growth pr...

Amorphous poly(vinyl phenol) (PVPh) is introduced into poly(butylene succinate-cobutylene adipate)/poly(L-lactic acid) (PBSA/PLLA) blends via solution casting. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis verifies that intermolecular hydrogen bonding formed in PBSA/PVPh/PLLA blends. The miscibility between PBSA and PLLA is improved with PVPh incorporation as evidenced by approaching ...

Melting and crystallization of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) blended with polyamide 6 (PA6) has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The melting of PVDF and PA6 is observed over a small temperature range, i.e. 174 to 181°C and 220 to 230°C, respectively, over the whole blend composition. This observation indicates that PVDF and PA6 are immiscible and do not co-crystallize, alth...

Thermal annealing strongly impacts the nano- and microstructure of conjugated polymers. Despite the fundamental importance for the resulting optoelectronic behavior of this class of materials, the underlying crystallization processes have not received the same attention that is encountered in other disciplines of materials science. The question arises whether classical treatment of nucleation a...

The crystallization of the 3F5FPhF6 compound from liquid crystalline antiferroelectric smectic CA* phase is investigated in various conditions using differential scanning calorimetry and polarizing optical microscopy. kinetics isothermal melt cold studied on basis Avrami model. non-isothermal analysed Ozawa model activation energy determined by Augis-Bennett, Friedman’s isoconversional Matusita...

9,10-dihydro-9,10-ethano-anthracene-11,12-dicarboxylic acid disodium salt (dheas) was synthesized andused as a nucleating agent for poly(1-butene) (ipb). the isothermal crystallization kinetics of ipb havingdifferent nucleating agents were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (dsc) and polarized opticalmicroscopy (pom). the results showed that the nucleating agents increased the cr...

Poly(ethylene adipte) and poly(ethylene adipate)/silica nanocomposite (PEAd/SiO2) containing 3 wt. % SiO2  were prepared by an in situ method. The examinations on the non-isothermal crystallization kinetic behavior have been conducted by means of differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The Avrami, Ozawa, and combined Avrami and Ozawa equations were applied to describe the crystallization kinet...