Melting temperature analysis

Melting temperatures of as-polymerized powders are high, ie, 198—205°C as measured by differential thermal analysis (dta) or hot-stage microscopy (76). Two peaks are usually observed in dta curves a small lower temperature peak and the main melting peak. The small peak seems to be related to polymer crystallized by precipitation rather than during polymerization. 

Determination of the thermal decomposition temperature by thermal gravimetric analysis (tga) defines the upper limits of processing. The tga for cellulose triacetate is shown in Figure 11. Comparing the melt temperature (289°C) from the dsc in Figure 10 to the onset of decomposition in Figure 11 defines the processing temperature window at which the material can successfully be melt extmded or blended. 

Another example of static SIMS used in a more quantitative role is in the analysis of extmded polymer blends. The morphology of blended polymers processed by extrusion or molding can be affected by the melt temperature, and pressure, etc. The surface morphology can have an effect on the properties of the molded polymer. Adhesion, mechanical properties, and physical appearance are just a few properties affected by processing conditions. 

The flow process in an injection mould is complicated by the fact that the mould cavity walls are below the freezing point of the polymer melt. In these circumstances the technologist is generally more concerned with the ability to fill the cavity rather than with the magnitude of the melt viscosity. In one analysis made of the injection moulding situation, Barrie showed that it was possible to calculate a mouldability index (p.) for a melt which was a function of the flow parameters K and the thermal diffusivity and the relevant processing temperatures (melt temperature and mould temperature) but which was independent of the geometry of the cavity and the flow pattern within the cavity. 

Yoon et al. [600] investigated the influence of the process temperature on the yield of tantalum powder and amount of fine fraction obtained. The reduction was performed using K2TaF7 dissolved in a KC1 - KF melt. The melt temperature varied in the range of 800-980°C. The analysis of the obtained results shows that the yield of the process increases at higher temperatures. In addition, higher temperatures lead to a decrease in the amount of fine fraction of tantalum powder produced. Nevertheless, it was noted that solely changing the process temperature does not ensure an improved yield. 

Figure 2 shows that, for all but the shortest chains, the Flory-Vrij analysis predicts a slightly higher melting temperature than the present mean-field model. Both approximations are give values higher than the simulation results, but the overall agreement is reasonable. 

Fig.2 Melting temperatures of polymers (faTm/Ec) with variable chain lengths. The solid line is calculated from Eq. 10, the dashed line is calculated from Flory-Vrij analysis (Eq. 11), and the circles are the simulation results in the optimized approach. In simulations, the occupation density is 0.9375, and the linear size of the cubic box is set to 32 for short chains and 64 for long chains (Hu and Frenkel, unpublished results)...

They were evaluated from our analysis of the primary nucleation and lateral growth rates and that of the l dependence to the melting temperature Tm using the Gibbs-Thomson equation. Insertion of the parameters given by Eq. 20 into Eq. 6 shows that the shape of a nucleus is a long thin rectangular parallelepiped with the ratio of... 

This problem is very important, but it is extremely difficult to make SAXS measurements at higher temperatures because the induction period becomes too short to observe the time evolution of SAXS intensities. For example, as was seen in Sect. 2.2, the induction period was only 100 s when the PET glass was crystallized even at 115 °C, 40 K higher than Tg, where a detailed analysis of the SAXS data was impossible. Of course, as the crystallization temperature approaches the melting temperature, the induction period is expected to become longer. However, as will be shown below, no characteristic peaks of SD could be detected in SAXS curves either. This is probably because the crystallization temperature was not in the unstable state, or the characteristic wavelength was much larger compared with the lower resolution limit of... 

Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA). One of the characteristics of a rubber useful in tire rubber compounds is that it is amorphous at room temperature but readily undergoes strain induced crystallization. For this reason, copolymers were prepared in order to appropriately adjust the crystalline melt temperature. 

With MAO activation, Zr- and Hf-FI catalysts 1 and 3 exhibit fairly high reactivity toward propylene and produce propylene oligomers [64, 65], Conversely, the corresponding Ti-FI catalyst/MAO 2 forms semicrystalline PP (1 °C polymerization), which displays a peak melting temperature of 97 °C, indicative of the formation of a stereoregular polymer. To our surprise, microstructural analysis by 13C NMR indicates that the resultant polymer is syndiotactic (rr 19%), and that a chain-end control mechanism is responsible for the observed stereocontrol, regardless of the C2 symmetric catalyst ([28] for the first report on syndiospecific propylene... 

An easy method for investigating the thermal-oxidative degradation of PET is differential thermal analysis (DTA), which indicates thermal degradation by the appearance of an exothermic peak in the range of the melting temperature. This approach also can be used to assess the efficiency of stabilizers [40],... 

Experimental and simulation results presented below will demonstrate that barrel rotation, the physics used in most texts and the classical extrusion literature, is not equivalent to screw rotation, the physics involved in actual extruders and used as the basis for modeling and simulation in this book. By changing the physics of the problem the dissipation and thus adiabatic temperature increase can be 50% in error for Newtonian fluids. For example, the temperature increase for screw and barrel rotation experiments for a polypropylene glycol fluid is shown in Fig. 7.30. As shown in this figure, the barrel rotation experiments caused the temperature to increase to a higher level as compared to the screw rotation experiments. The analysis presented here focuses on screw rotation analysis, in contrast to the historical analysis using barrel rotation [15-17]. It was pointed out recently by Campbell et al. [59] that the theory for barrel and screw rotation predicts different adiabatic melt temperature increases. 

In 2004, Rayner and coworkers reported a dynamic system for stabilizing nucleic acid duplexes by covalently appending small molecules [34]. These experiments started with a system in which 2-amino-2 -deoxyuridine (U-NH ) was site-specifically incorporated into nucleic acid strands via chemical synthesis. In the first example, U-NH was incorporated at the 3 end of the self-complementary U(-NH2)GCGCA DNA. This reactive amine-functionalized uridine was then allowed to undergo imine formation with a series of aldehydes (Ra-Rc), and aldehyde appendages that stabilize the DNA preferentially formed in the dynamic system. Upon equilibration and analysis, it was found that the double-stranded DNA modified with nalidixic aldehyde Rc at both U-NH positions was amplified 34% at the expense of Ra and Rb (Fig. 3.16). The Rc-appended DNA stabilizing modification corresponded to a 33% increase in (melting temperature). Furthermore, imine reduction of the stabilized DNA complex with NaCNBH, resulted in a 57% increase in T. ... 

The heat capacities of series of ammonium bromides ([(Ci)2C3HOC2N]Br, [(Cj)2C4HOC2N]Br, and [(Q)2QHOC2N]Br) were measured for the solid and liquid phase, and the difference in the solute heat capacity between the liquid and solid phase at the melting temperature, j has been determined by the DSC analysis [79]. Negative values of were observed for these... 

Melting of samples is necessary for performing the analysis of ceramics and glass materials by means of x-ray fluorescence (XRF). Lithium tetraborate is added as flux for lowering the melting temperature. The homogeneous disks that form can be considered a solid solution of the sample compounds in the binder. 

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