Citation: Hai-Mu Ye, Xiao-Tong Chen, Ping Liu, Na Yan. Prominently Promoting the Formation of Poly(butylene adipate) α-Form Crystals by Coalescing from Inclusion Complex[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2018, 36(7): 866-870. doi: 10.1007/s10118-018-2095-x shu

Prominently Promoting the Formation of Poly(butylene adipate) α-Form Crystals by Coalescing from Inclusion Complex

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China

Corresponding author: Hai-Mu Ye, yehaimu@cup.edu.cn
Received Date: 12 October 2017
Accepted Date: 23 November 2017
Available Online: 11 July 2018

We successfully use a co-precipitation method to prepare inclusion complex between poly(butylene adipate) (PBA) chains (guest component) and urea molecules (host component). The PBA/urea inclusion complex is confirmed to adopt a hexagonal crystal modification with lattice parameters of a = 8.14 Å and c = 10.92 Å, and the interaction between PBA chains and urea is van der Waals force. The singly isolated PBA chains are suggested to take some gauche conformation, which is different from the all-trans conformation in β-form PBA. Furthermore, we employ the isolated PBA chains which are uniformly pre-established in a specific conformation in urea channels to regulate the crystal form of PBA for the first time. After removing the host urea molecules, the coalesced PBA chains are found to solely crystallize into α-form crystals at different coalescing temperatures. By comparing the FTIR spectra, it is found that PBA chains in inclusion complex plausibly contain some similar conformers as those in α-form crystal, which is suggested to be the intrinsic reason for the sole formation of α-form crystals. This research proves that inclusion complex can be used as a very effective method to regulate polymorphism of semi-crystalline polymers.
- Poly(butylene adipate),
- Inclusion complex,
- Polymorphism,
- Chain conformation
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