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Crystallization Behavior of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) in a Confined Geometry  

임정은 (인하대학교 화공생명공학부, 기능성고분자신소재연구센타)
이종관 (인하대학교 화공생명공학부, 기능성고분자신소재연구센타)
이광희 (인하대학교 화공생명공학부, 기능성고분자신소재연구센타)
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Polymer(Korea) / v.27, no.4, 2003 , pp. 293-298 More about this Journal
Abstract
The development of the crystalline structure of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT) in a confined geometry was investigated with optical microscope, small angle light scattering, and X-ray diffraction. The rejected distance, which was represented in terms of the parameter $\delta$, played an important role in determining the morphological patterns of poly (ethylene terethphalate) (PET/PTT) blend. In case of stepwise crystallization, the crystallization of PTT commenced in the interspherulitic region between the grown PET crystals and proceeded until the interspherulitic space was filled with the PTT crystals. The spherulitic surface of the PET crtstals acted as the nucleation sites where the PTT molecules preferentially crystallized, leading to the formation of transcrystalline structure. As a result, a mixed morphological pattern was observed in the PTT-rich phase: one was a typical spherulitic texture and the other was a transcrystalline texture. Some of the molecular conformations of PTT, which could adopt in the absence of the space limitation, were probably forbidden in the interlamellar and/or interfibrillar regions of the PET spherulite. This constraint was responsible for difference in the crystallization and melting behavior of PTT between the intra and interspheulitic regions of PET.
Keywords
crystallization; morphology; PTT; blend;
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