D. Cayuela et al., DIFFERENTIAL SOLUBILITY OF POLY(ETHYLENETEREPHTHALATE) FIBER VS. TEMPERATURE - 2 - CALORIMETRIC STUDY OF THE NON-DISSOLVED FRACTIONS, JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY, 52(3), 1998, pp. 997-1004
The differential solubility of two poly(ethyleneterephthalate) (PET) f
ibres was determined in one thermally treated substrate and in another
thermally untreated. In both cases, mixtures of phenol/tetrachloroeth
ane with the appropriate composition were used. The non-dissolved frac
tions of the untreated PET fibre display a molecular mass and a crysta
llinity which increase on increase of the temperature of the different
ial solubility test. In the case of the thermally treated substrate, b
oth the molecular mass and the crystallinity of the residual fraction
remain constant on increase of the test temperature.