Anjana, Jain and Kalyani, Vijayan Effect of Thermal Aging on the Crystal Structural Characteristics of Poly(tetra fluoro ethylene). Polymer Engineering and Science . pp. 1-6.
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Abstract
The residual effects of cumulative thermal aging on the crystal structural characteristics of the fluoro carbon poly(tetra fluoro ethylene) (PTFE) have been studied by X-ray diffraction methods. The initial hexagonal arrangement of the PTFE chains in a 157 helical conformation is left unaffected by the exposures to temperatures (T), up to and beyond its melting point, Tm. The unit cell registers a residual anisotropic volume expansion. The anisotropy arises from the enhanced enlargement of the basal plane dimension a compared with the axial dimension c. Conformational changes contributing to the observed increase in the chain length have been examined. Enhancement of residual crystallinity of samples aged at T’s < Tm suggests that the selective thermal aging could be used as an effective tool to improve the initial crystallinity of commercially available PTFE. The activation energy for 50% enhancement in initial crystallinity has been estimated as 53.9 kJ mol�1. Aging at 4008C, a temperature above Tm, is accompanied by markedly different features viz., deterioration in crystallinity and other structural characteristics. The overall behavior of thermally aged PTFE bears a marked similarity to many polyamides. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 47:1724–1729, 2007. ª2007 Society of Plastics Engineers
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Thermal aging, Crystal structural characteristics of poly, tetra fluora ethylene |
| Subjects: | CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS > Chemistry and Materials (General) |
| Division/Department: | Materials Science Division, Materials Science Division |
| Depositing User: | Ms Indrani V |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2012 09:50 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2012 09:50 |
| URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/11071 |
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