Abstract
Understanding the effect of gamma-ray irradiation on the nonisothermal crystallization of polymer during cooling is of practical importance for the applications and manufacturing of crystallized polymer. In this work, we expose poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (PMP) to gamma-ray with different irradiation doses and study the crystallization of the gamma-ray irradiated PMPs. All the PMPs exhibit a doublet peak in the differential scanning calorimeter thermograms for the cooling rates in a range of 2.5–20°C/min. We use linear superposition of two inverse Gaussian functions to decompose the doublet peak into two individual peaks and analyze the crystallization kinetics of the crystallization processes associated with individual peaks. The Avrami exponent decreases with the decrease of the crystallization temperature and is in a range of 0.96–2.43 for the crystallization near the melting point and a range of 0.72–1.68 for the crystallization away the melting temperature. The activation energy for the crystallization near the melting temperature decreases with the increase of the irradiation dose. For the crystallization away from the melting temperature, the activation energy for the PMPs without gamma-ray irradiation is smallest.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 50-61 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | SPE Polymers |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Authors. SPE Polymers published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. on behalf of Society of Plastics Engineers.
Funding
We are grateful to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, for financial support.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
Keywords
- activation energy
- crystallization
- doublet peak
- gamma-ray irradiation
- poly(4-methyl-1-pentene)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Polymers and Plastics
- Materials Science (miscellaneous)
- Biomaterials
- Engineering (miscellaneous)