ISSN:
0021-8995
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
The FTIR method was used to study the melting behavior of poly(ethylene 2, 6-naphthalene-dicarboxylate) (PEN) samples of different thermal history of crystallization. With subtraction of the spectra of PEN samples of different crystallinities and amorphous PEN, the spectra of crystalline trans conformers, amorphous trans conformers, and amorphous gauche conformers were obtained. By following the changes in intensity of various gauche and crystalline bands during heating, the phenomenon of multiple melting endothermic peaks was shown to be due to the melting of imperfect crystalline conformation formed during crystallization. For two-step annealed samples, the crystalline conformational defects change into a more perfect one during annealing at higher temperatures. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
7 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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