Abstract
The crystallization of poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL) and isotactic polypropylene (iPP) infiltrated in nanoporous anodic alumina oxide (AAO) templates was reexamined to demonstrate the importance of obtaining polymer-free, clean AAO surfaces on the nucleation, size dependence of crystallization temperature (Tc), and texture. The AAO pore diameters cover a broad range from 400 to 20 nm. When the AAO templates were completely free of any residual polymer on their surfaces, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experiments exhibited a single crystallization peak for all the samples with different AAO pore sizes. A drastic decrease in Tc with density of domains indicated a transition from heterogeneous to homogeneous/surface nucleation. A regular decrease of Tc with pore size was observed in the low Tc regime, as a result of the volume dependence of nucleation events. The chain alignment of the two polymers infiltrated in AAO was studied by two-dimensional wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS). By comparing the ex...
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