Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1998, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (3): 469.

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Studies on Nucleation of Cellulose Aromatic Ester Thermotropic Liquid Crystal on Polyethylene Terephthalate

RUAN Wen-Hong, SHEN Jing-Wei, LI Bai-Qian   

  1. Department of Plastics Engineering, Sichuan Union University, Chengdu, 610065
  • Received:1996-11-12 Online:1998-03-24 Published:1998-03-24

Abstract: Using a self prepared cellulose aromatic ester(CAE) thermotropic liquid crystal as polyethylene terephthalate(PET) nucleating agent, the isothermal crystallizing kinetics characteristics of PET/CAE(CAEcontent≤1%) in the temperature range of 110~200 ℃ were investigated. The results show that CAEcan significantly accelerate crystallizing rate (Z) of PET, with the change of crystallizing temperature and CAE content, Zhas a maximum value Zmax (TC) and Zmax ( WCAE), the temperature Tmax corresponding to Zmax (TC) decreases with the increase of CAE content. The mechanism of CAE accelerating PET crystallization is different from that of common nucleating agent.

Key words: Polyethylene terephthalate(PET), Cellulose aromatic ester, Thermotropic liquid crystal, Crystallizing kinetics

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