Non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of polypropylene and hyperbranched polyester blends☆

摘要

Polypropylene (PP) with different contents of the second generation hyperbranched polyester (HBP) is prepared by melt blending method. The non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of PP and PP/HBP blends is investigated under differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The Mo equation is used to analyze the DSC data. The results show that the Mo theory is suitable for crystal ization kinetics of the blends. Fast cooling rate is not good for crys-tallizing and nucleating. The values of half crystal ization time (t1/2), crystal ization enthalpy (ΔHc) and temper-ature range (ΔT) of PP/HBP blends decrease when HBP is added. The required cooling rate of PP is higher than that of PP/HBP blends in order to reach the same relative crystal inity. Crystallization rate increases with the ad-dition of HBP. The crystallization rate reaches a maximum when the content of HBP is 5%. In addition, the activa-tion energies of PP and PP/HBP blends are calculated by Kissinger equation, revealing that the content of HBP has a little effect on the crystallization activation energy.