Isothermal crystallization kinetics and melting behavior of poly(ethylene terephthalate)/attapulgite nanocomposites studied by step-scan DSC

Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B: Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 318-328

  Zheng, Kang ^a   Yao, Xiayin ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Tian, Xing You ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Attapulgite (AT); Crystallization; Isothermal; Melt; Nanocomposites; Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE; MELTING; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYPROPYLENES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTAPULGITE (AT); AVRAMI EXPONENTS; AVRAMI METHODS; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; ISOTHERMAL; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATIONS; MAIN EFFECTS; MELT; MELTING BEHAVIORS; MULTIPLE MELTING; POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) (PET); RECRYSTALLIZATION; SECONDARY CRYSTALLIZATIONS; STEP-SCAN DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRIES; STEP-SCAN DSC;

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS;

EID: 61549106853     PISSN: 00222348     EISSN: 1525609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222340802679839     Document Type: Article

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