Method for Calculation of the Lamellar Thickness Distribution of Not-Reorganized Linear Polyethylene Using Fast Scanning Calorimetry in Heating

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• 作者：Yoshitomo Furushima ; Masaru Nakada ; Masataka Murakami ; Tsuneyuki Yamane ; Akihiko Toda ; Christoph Schick
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 22, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：48
• 期：24
• 页码：8831-8837
• 全文大小：405K
• ISSN：1520-5835

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The lamellar thickness distribution (LTD) of not-reorganized linear polyethylene was calculated on the basis of the melting point distribution using fast scanning calorimetry (FSC) by applying the following precautions. First, by taking sufficiently small sample mass and thickness, the influence of thermal lag during fast-heating is thought to be negligible. Second, by fast-heating, reorganization and cold crystallization are strongly hindered or even suppressed. Third, the influence of superheating has been accounted for and corrected by deconvolution of the FSC curve using the calculated melting kinetics of single-sized lamellae consisting of folded-chain crystal. Under such precautions, the resulting FSC heating curve reflects the melting point distribution of metastable-but-not-reorganized folded-chain crystals. Finally, the Gibbs鈥揟homson equation was applied to calculate the LTD from the melting point distribution. The average lamellar thickness calculated was in good agreement with that determined by small-angle X-ray scattering and low-frequency Raman spectroscopy.