PMID- 30960771
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 2073-4360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4360 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 8
DP  - 2018 Aug 1
TI  - A Study of the Pressure-Induced Solidification of Polymers.
LID - 10.3390/polym10080847 [doi]
LID - 847
AB  - By using a self-designed pressure-jump apparatus, we investigated the melt 
      solidification behavior in the rapid compression process for 
      poly-ethylene-terephthalate (PET), polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK), isotactic 
      polypropylene (iPP), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and the living polymer 
      sulfur. The experimental results clearly show that crystallization could be 
      inhibited, and some melts were solidified to the full amorphous state for PET, 
      PEEK, and sulfur. Full amorphous PEEK that was 24 mm in diameter and 12 mm in 
      height was prepared, which exceeded the size obtained by the melt quenching 
      method. The bulk amorphous sulfur thus obtained exhibited extraordinarily high 
      thermal stability, and an abnormal exothermic transition to liquid sulfur was 
      observed at around 396 K. Since the solidification of melt is realized by 
      changing pressure instead of temperature and is not essentially limited by 
      thermal conductivity, it is a promising way to prepare fully amorphous polymers. 
      In addition, novel properties are also expected in these polymers solidified by 
      the pressure-jump within milliseconds.
FAU - Liu, Xiuru
AU  - Liu X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8170-1869
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. xrliu@swjtu.edu.cn.
FAU - Zhang, Linji
AU  - Zhang L
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. zhanglj@hpstar.ac.cn.
FAU - Yuan, Chaosheng
AU  - Yuan C
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. zzyuancs@163.com.
FAU - Jia, Ru
AU  - Jia R
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. rujia0421@163.com.
FAU - Shao, Chunguang
AU  - Shao C
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. shaochg@zzu.edu.cn.
FAU - Wang, Mingyou
AU  - Wang M
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. 15528237753@163.com.
FAU - Hong, Shiming
AU  - Hong S
AD  - School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong 
      University, Chengdu 610031, China. smhong2@163.com.
LA  - eng
GR  - 10774123, 11004163, 51573171/National Science Foundation of China/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180801
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Polymers (Basel)
JT  - Polymers
JID - 101545357
PMC - PMC6403784
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - amorphous phase
OT  - mesomorphic phase
OT  - polymer
OT  - pressure jump
OT  - pressure-induced solidification
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2019/04/10 06:00
MHDA- 2019/04/10 06:01
PMCR- 2018/08/01
CRDT- 2019/04/10 06:00
PHST- 2018/06/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/07/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/07/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/04/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/04/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/04/10 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - polym10080847 [pii]
AID - polymers-10-00847 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/polym10080847 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Polymers (Basel). 2018 Aug 1;10(8):847. doi: 10.3390/polym10080847.