Abstract
The crystallization behavior of three double crystalline diblock copolymers containing poly(e-caprolactone) and poly(p-dioxanone) has been studied via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized optical microscopy (POM), and wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS). Crystallization and melting temperatures and enthalpies are compared among copolymers and to those of the corresponding homopolymers. Only one crystallization exotherm was observed for the diblocks. DSC and WAXS indicated that during isothermal crystallization PPDX crystallized first, followed by PCL. POM revealed a transformation of crystalline morphologies at around 50 °C, from granular aggregates at high temperature (where only PPDX is crystalline) to banded spherulites at lower temperature, where both blocks were crystalline. The kinetics of crystallization were studied in detail via spherulite growth rates obtained from POM, and it was found that PPDX crystallization in the diblocks occurred much more slowly than in the homopolymers, thi...
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