Abstract
An attempt has been made to investigate the influence of film casting temperature and thermal ageing on order structure formation of segmented polyurethane (SPU) block copolymer. For this purpose films were casted at three different temperature of 60, 80, or 100°C and thermal aged at 100, 120, 130, or 150°C. The structure of films were investigated by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR), wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Film casted at slow solvent evaporation has more regular structure than the film casted at rapid solvent evaporation. Crystaline structure decreases with increase in casting temperature due to chain entanglement, which makes crystallization process tougher. The effect of ageing temperature on crystalline structure formation remains unclear. Decrease of ordered structure was observed when the samples were heat treated at 100 or 120°C, however, slight increase of ordered structures were observed for the samples heat treated at 130 or 150°C. Therefore, the influence of thermal ageing has been explained in terms of order-disorder temperature of block copolymer.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 353-359 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2007 |
Keywords
- Casting temperature
- Crystalization
- Segmented polyurethane
- Thermal ageing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Polymers and Plastics
- Materials Science (miscellaneous)
- General Chemical Engineering
- Materials Chemistry