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A. Toda Hiroshima University Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences 1-7-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan 1-7-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan

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C. Tomita Hiroshima University Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences 1-7-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan 1-7-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan

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M. Hirosaka Hiroshima University Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences 1-7-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan 1-7-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan

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A new method is presented to analyze the irreversible melting kinetics of polymer crystals with a temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry (TMDSC). The method is based on an expression of the apparent heat capacity,
\documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} $$\Delta \tilde C{e}^{---{i\alpha }} = mc_p + i(1/{\omega }F'_{T}$$ \end{document}
, with the true heat capacity, mcp, and the response of the kinetics,
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. The present paper experimentally examines the irreversible melting of nylon 6 crystals on heating. The real and imaginary parts of the apparent heat capacity showed a strong dependence on frequency and heating rate during the melting process. The dependence and the Cole-Cole plot could be fitted by the frequency response function of Debye's type with a characteristic time depending on heating rate. The characteristic time represents the time required for the melting of small crystallites which form the aggregates of polymer crystals. The heating rate dependence of the characteristic time differentiates the superheating dependence of the melting rate. Taking account of the relatively insensitive nature of crystallization to temperature modulation, it is argued that the ‘reversing’ heat flow extrapolated to ω → 0 is related to the endothermic heat flow of melting and the corresponding ‘non-reversing’ heat flow represents the exothermic heat flow of re-crystallization and re-organization. The extrapolated ‘reversing’ and ‘non-reversing’ heat flow indicates the melting and re-crystallization and/or re-organization of nylon 6 crystals at much lower temperature than the melting peak seen in the total heat flow.
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Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Language English
Size A4
Year of
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1969
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1
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24
Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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ISSN 1388-6150 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2926 (Online)

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