화학공학소재연구정보센터
Polymer Engineering and Science, Vol.40, No.9, 2058-2071, 2000
The crystallization kinetics of polyamide 66 in non-isothermal and isothermal conditions: Effect of nucleating agent and pressure
The crystallization kinetics of virgin and nucleated polyamide 66 was investigated in non-isothermal and isothermal conditions, by use of DSC and high pressure dilatometry. In non-isothermal conditions, at atmospheric pressure, the results were first analyzed using the Ozawa equation, leading to an Avrami exponent of 4 in the case of the virgin grade and 2.1 for the nucleated polyamide. However, experimental and calculated kinetics showed a difference in the ending part of the crystallization, likely due to a large secondary crystallization phenomenon. Thus, the relative crystallinities were normalized to extract the primary crystallization from the whole signal and analyzed using the Douillard/Kim equation. In isothermal conditions, at atmospheric pressure, the Avrami exponents were similar to the values obtained in non-isothermal conditions for both virgin and nucleated grades. Furthermore, the crystallization under pressure was examined in terms of crystallization supercooling. In non-isothermal conditions, the crystallization supercooling (Delta Tc) increases when the cooling rate increases, but it is not affected by the pressure since the crystallization temperature increase is due to the equilibrium melting temperature rise. In isothermal conditions, the supercooling (Delta T) rises according to the increase of the pressure for the same crystallization temperature.