How Confinement Affects the Nucleation, Crystallization, and Dielectric Relaxation of Poly(butylene succinate) and Poly(butylene adipate) Infiltrated within Nanoporous Alumina Templates
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This work describes the successful melt infiltration of poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) and poly(butylene adipate) (PBA) within 70 nm diameter anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates. The infiltrated samples were characterized by SEM, Raman, and FTIR spectroscopy. The crystallization behaviors and crystalline structures of both polymers, bulk and confined, were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and grazing incidence wide angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS). DSC revealed that a change in the nucleation process occurred from heterogeneous nucleation for bulk samples to homogeneous nucleation for infiltrated PBA and to surface-induced nucleation for infiltrated PBS. GIWAXS results indicate that PBS nanofibers crystallize in the α-phase, as well as their bulk samples. However, PBA nanofibers crystallize just in the β-phase, whereas PBA bulk samples crystallize in a mixture of α- and β-phases. The crystal orientation within the pores was determined, and differences between PBS and PBA were also found. Finally, broadband dielectric spectroscopy was applied to study the segmental dynamics for bulk and infiltrated samples. The glass temperature was found to significantly decrease in the PBS case upon infiltration, while that of PBA remained unchanged. These differences were correlated with the higher affinity of PBS to the AAO walls than PBA, in accordance with their nucleation behavior (surface-induced versus homogeneous nucleation, respectively).
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For polymer crystallization within AAO templates, a possible nucleation effect of the AAO wall has been frequently proposed to explain the relatively high T c compared to T g.
“As for polymer crystallization within AAO templates, a possible nucleation effect of the AAO wall has been frequently proposed to explain the relatively high T c as compared to the T g , such as in PE [218] , PBS [344] , PVDF [274] , etc.”
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- Authors
- Safari, M., Maiz, J., Shi, G., Juanes, D., Liu, G., Wang, D., Mijangos, C., Alegría, Á., & Müller, A. J.
- Affiliations
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Ikerbasque (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Mijangos, Carmen
- Müller, Alejandro J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Langmuir
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2019-10-17
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 47
- Pages
- 15168-15179
- ISSN
- 0743-7463 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5827
- OpenAlex
- W2980543786
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- en
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- Communities in ADDI (University of the Basque Country) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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- Funders
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2017YFE0117800)
- Ministerio de Econom?a y Competitividad (MAT2017-83014-C2-1-P, MAT2017-83014-C2-2-P)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015026)
- H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (778092)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21873109, 51820105005)
- Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
- Keywords
- poly(butylene succinate), poly(butylene adipate), anodic aluminum oxide templates, melt infiltration, polymer nanofibers, confined crystallization, nucleation, homogeneous nucleation, heterogeneous nucleation, alpha phase, beta phase, crystal orientation, dielectric relaxation, segmental motion, glass transition temperature
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