Deformation mechanism of iPP under uniaxial stretching over a wide temperature range: An in-situ synchrotron radiation SAXS/WAXS study

With a combination of homemade temperature jump extension apparatus and in-situ synchrotron radiation small and wide angle X-ray scattering (SR-SAXS and SR-WAXS) measurements, uniaxial stretching experiments of polypropylene films at 50 °C-150 °C are carried out to obtain the structure evolution rou...

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Published in:Polymer (Guilford) 2017-06, Vol.118, p.12-21
Main Authors: Chen, Xiaowei, Lv, Fei, Su, Fengmei, Ji, Youxin, Meng, Lingpu, Wan, Caixia, Lin, Yuanfei, Li, Xueyu, Li, Liangbin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amorphization
Deformation
Deformation mechanisms
Diagrams
Evolution
Film processing
Morphology
Morphology diagram
Photofinishing laboratories
Polypropylene
Recrystallization
Small angle X ray scattering
Stretching
Synchrotron radiation
Temperature effects
Uniaxial stretching
X-ray scattering
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Summary:With a combination of homemade temperature jump extension apparatus and in-situ synchrotron radiation small and wide angle X-ray scattering (SR-SAXS and SR-WAXS) measurements, uniaxial stretching experiments of polypropylene films at 50 °C-150 °C are carried out to obtain the structure evolution routes. Three distinct features of the structure evolution are observed in temperature space, which can be described with three different deformation models, namely amorphization, crystalline block slip and melt recrystallization, respectively. Also, a refined morphology diagram in strain-temperature space is given to specify the morphology under two dimensional stretching parameter space. This work supplies a guidance for selecting processing conditions to obtain optimal structures after uniaxial stretching in industry. [Display omitted] •In-situ SAXS and WAXS are used to track structure evolution of iPP under extension.•A morphology diagram is proposed over a wide strain-temperature parameter space.•Deformation mechanisms are revealed and defined into three regions.
ISSN:0032-3861
1873-2291
DOI:10.1016/j.polymer.2017.04.054