A new insight into the formation of β-crystals of isotactic polypropylene induced by zinc dicarboxylic acids

被引：4
作者：
Zhang X. [1 ]
Qin W. [1 ,2 ]
Wu T. [1 ,3 ]
Zhao S. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multiphase Materials Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai
[2] Shanghai Kingfa Sci.&Tech, Dvpt.Co., Ltd, Shanghai
[3] SINOPEC Ningbo New Materials Research Institute Company Limited, Ningbo
来源：
Polymer | 2022年 / 262卷
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Interaction energy; Isotactic polypropylene; Nucleation mechanism; Zinc dicarboxylic acids;
D O I：
10.1016/j.polymer.2022.125500
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摘要：
Some zinc dicarboxylic acids can induce numerous β-crystals formation in isotactic polypropylene (iPP), thus improving the crystallization behavior and mechanical properties of iPP. However, the corresponding nucleation mechanism of β-crystals remains inadequate, leading to the absence of a theoretical basis for the design and preparation of new and high-efficiency β-nucleating agents (β-NAs). In this work, we demonstrate a new mechanism that β-crystals can be formed when the interfacial interaction between β-NAs and iPP is comparable to that between β-PP and iPP. The interfacial interaction occurs when iPP epitaxially crystallizes on the NA surface, which will affect the folding and arrangement of iPP chains, thereby leading to formation of different crystalline forms of iPP. The interaction energy of iPP chain with α-PP and β-PP is used as a judgment criterion, which is resolved by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. We surprisingly found that when the interaction energy of NA/iPP was close to that of β-PP/iPP, the NA can be acted as β-NA; β-crystals were inclined to form when the interaction energy of NA/iPP was close to that of β-PP/iPP. Furthermore, the simulation results are well verified by the crystallization behavior of iPP in the presence of aromatic zinc dicarboxylic acids of zinc terephthalate (ZnCC1) and zinc 4-carboxybenzoate (ZnCC2), lending strong support to the proposed nucleation mechanism and method. This work proposes a new insight into the formation of β-crystals of iPP based on the interaction energy of NA and iPP, and demonstrates a method to rapidly predict and evaluate the β-nucleation effect of NAs, thus may serve as a theoretical guidance for the design of NAs that can induce iPP with specific crystalline forms. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
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