The Crystallization Behavior of Isotactic Polypropylene Induced by a Novel Antinucleating Agent and Its Inhibition Mechanism of Nucleation
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- 作者：Shicheng Zhao ; Xin Yu ; Hanzhang Gong ; Zhong Xin ; Yaoqi Shi ; Shuai Zhou
- 刊名：Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：August 12, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：54
- 期：31
- 页码：7650-7657
- 全文大小：547K
- ISSN：1520-5045
文摘
The addition of foreign substances is well-known to be able to improve the crystallization of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) following a nucleation-promoting mechanism. In the present work, however, we found that zinc salt of 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7-hexachlorobicyclo [2.2.1] hept-5-ene-2, 3-dicarboxylic acid (HCHD-Zn) unexpectedly decreased the crystallization temperature (Tcp) and crystallization rate of iPP, generating remarkable antinucleation effects. The results of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM) showed Tcp of iPP decreased more than 4 掳C and nucleation densities of iPP decreased nearly 70% upon the addition of the 鈥渁nti-nucleating agent鈥?HCHD-Zn. Isothermal crystallization kinetics indicated HCHD-Zn lowered the crystallization kinetic constant k of iPP but had similar Avrami exponent with neat iPP, which revealed HCHD-Zn hindered the crystallization of iPP but did not change the type of nucleation and growth geometries of iPP. We proposed a mechanism of antinucleation of iPP upon the addition of HCHD-Zn from a structural perspective. Hydrogens on the tertiary carbons in the melt of iPP may react with the chlorine in the HCHD-Zn particles dispersed within. The removal of hydrochloride left a 3D network of iPP chains cross-linked by HCHD-Zn particles. Therefore, the restricted movement of polymer chains inhibited the nucleation of iPP.