Rong Yang, Hong-mei Li, Jing Jiang, Dong-shan Zhou. Study on Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Poly(ethylene oxide) Droplets by Fast Scanning Calorimetry. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica 0(9):1228-1235(2018)
DOI:
Rong Yang, Hong-mei Li, Jing Jiang, Dong-shan Zhou. Study on Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Poly(ethylene oxide) Droplets by Fast Scanning Calorimetry. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica 0(9):1228-1235(2018) DOI: 10.11777/j.issn1000-3304.2018.18024.
Study on Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Poly(ethylene oxide) Droplets by Fast Scanning Calorimetry
The isothermal crystallization kinetics of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) droplets was studied by fast scanning calorimetry (FSC) at a scanning rate up to 10000 K/s over a wide temperature range from its glass transition temperature to its melting temperature
and compared with that of PEO bulk sample. It was observed that the nucleation in PEO bulk sample during cooling is unavoidable even at a scanning rate of up to 50000 K/s because of numerous heterogeneity and the observation of an obvious cold crystallization peak in the subsequent heating curves. While the critical cooling rate is much slower when the sample was prepared by film dewetting and dispersed to several droplets smaller than 2 μm in diameter
and a fully amorphous sample could be obtained at a scanning rate of 10000 K/s. Isothermal crystallization of PEO bulk and that of droplets were studied in the time range from 10
−2
s to 10
3
s at varied temperatures from 210 K to 310 K. The half crystallization time at each annealing temperature was calculated by fitting the enthalpy-time curve with a modified Avrami equation. It was found that the total crystallization rate of PEO droplets was systematically decreased by one magnitude in the whole temperature region. When the sample was dispersed into droplets of the size of several microns
the number of heterogeneity in each droplet was much less than that in the bulk or even heterogeneity-free in some droplets
with the average crystallization rate slowing down
especially in the low supercooling region
where heterogeneous nucleation is supposed to be dominant. The slowing down of crystallization rate was also observed at higher supercooling near
T
g
where the homogeneous nucleation is considered to dominate the crystallization rate. Because of a slower homogeneous nucleation rate of PEO
the droplets sample with less heterogeneity mainly nucleated from homogeneous nucleation with a slower crystallization rate comparing to the unavoidable heterogeneous nucleation in bulk sample. The confinement of the droplet size may hinder the long-range diffusion of PEO chains and restricted the growth dimension under confinement
which could also be a reason for which a decrease in total crystallization rate of PEO droplets sample was observed.
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