Nonisothermal crystallization of PP/nano‐SiO2 composites
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Abstract
Abstract The kinetics of nonisothermal crystallization of polypropylene (PP) containing nanoparticles of silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at various cooling rates. Several different analysis methods were used to describe the process of nonisothermal crystallization. The results showed that the Ozawa equation and Mo's treatment could describe the nonisothermal crystallization of the composites very well. The nano‐SiO 2 particles have a remarkable heterogeneous nucleation effect in the PP matrix. The rate of crystallization of PP/nano‐SiO 2 is higher than that of pure PP. By using a method proposed by Kissinger, activation energies have been evaluated to be 262.1, 226.5, 249.5, and 250.1 kJ/mol for nonisothermal crystallization of pure PP and PP/nano‐SiO 2 composites with various SiO 2 loadings of 1, 3, and 5%, respectively. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 91: 1013–1019, 2004
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