REVERSIBLE LOCAL MELTING IN POLYMER CRYSTALS

Authors
OKAZAKI I WUNDERLICH B
Citation
I. Okazaki et B. Wunderlich, REVERSIBLE LOCAL MELTING IN POLYMER CRYSTALS, Macromolecular rapid communications, 18(4), 1997, pp. 313-318
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Macromolecular rapid communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
10221336
Volume
18
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
313 - 318
Database
ISI
SICI code
1022-1336(1997)18:4<313:RLMIPC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The melting of poly(ethylene terephthalate) is analyzed by quasi-isoth ermal, temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry. The me asurement is done by sinusoidally changing the temperature in the melt ing range (+/-1.0 K). In the melting range a small portion of the samp le melts reversibly. This observation is taken as a direct observation of the reversibility of melting of specific macromolecules as long as they are melting only partially and need no molecular nucleation for recrystallization.