Correlation between crystallization and mechanical stress reveals by chain scission of segmented amide copolymer
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Date | 2022-04 | ||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||
Author(s) | Bardin Antoine1, 2, 3, Le Gac Pierre Yves![]() |
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Affiliation(s) | 1 : Marine Structure Laboratory, IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne, 29280, Plouzané, France 2 : Thales DMS France, 525 Route des Dolines, 06560, Valbonne, France 3 : PIMM Laboratory, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, CNRS, Cnam, HESAM Université, 151 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France 4 : Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, UMR 8502, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France |
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Source | Polymer (0032-3861) (Elsevier BV), 2022-04 , Vol. 247 , P. 124757 (8p.) | ||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1016/j.polymer.2022.124757 | ||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 1 | ||||||||||||
Keyword(s) | Thermoplastic elastomer, Poly(ether-block-amide), PEBA, Chain scission, Strain-induced crystallization | ||||||||||||
Abstract | By tuning hydrolysis duration of a segmented ether-amide copolymer (PEBA), a range of specimens presenting various macromolecular structures has been produced. Knowing that scissions occur predominantly at the bond between hard and soft blocks, for a given hard phase structure we study the impact of phase interconnection changes on strain-induced crystallization (SIC) occurring during tensile loading. The consequences of chain scissions on the structural reorganization involving SIC measured with in situ X-ray diffraction is considered here for the first time. A close correlation between stress and crystallinity induced under strain is highlighted whatever the chain scission number, i.e. the number of phase interconnections. As a result, the stress decrease observed at a given elongation can be interpreted as a consequence of a SIC weakening with the chain scission process. |
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