Understanding the engineering polymers.

(annealing of polymers and composites), Part 3 - BONUS

Date: ____th Oct, 2019 Student: _________________________________

1. Access to the web page http://www.substech.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=annealing_of_plastics, and read

carefully the content about annealing of polymers. Also, please consider figure 1 as an example for
polyethyleneterephtlate (PET) and polystyrene (PS) samples under DSC test.

Figure 1 Side (a): DSC scans of PET and PS; Side (b) DSC scan of PET/PS blend for bottles blowing
(retrieved from Wellen R. (2014), Materials Research, Vol 17(6), pp.:1620-1627)

Please locate over the figure 1 the most common temperature range (or value) for anneal each
polymer, that mention the article provided earlier.
Annealing temperature range for PET:________________ °C
Annealing temperature range for PS: _________________ °C
Annealing temperature range for PET/PS: ________________ °C

1.1. According with the text provided in the web page suggested, is possible to affirm that the statement
about annealing is either wrong or false?, Please use additional information from the site:
https://www.ptonline.com/articles/materials-thermoplastic-urethanes-why-annealing-makes-a-big-
difference to complement your analysis. Finally, say where could be the most convenient annealing
temperatures to anneal PET and PS?, please draw (again) on the plot provided your own temperature
range or value for PET, PS and the new mixture PET/PS. Motivate your explanation?

Annealing temperature range for PET:________________ °C, because ________________________

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Annealing temperature range for PS: _________________ °C, because ________________________
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 Annealing temperature range for PET/PS: ________________ °C, because
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And analize carefully the next table (please read the table caption for acronyms understanding). This
experiences of annealing were developed on polypropylene (PP) homopolymer (HPP, PP alone), and a
copolymer (blocks of other polymer additional to PP inside the molecular structure)

Tensile Elongation Tensile Tm Tg Heat of fusion

Material
Strength (MPa) to Break (%) Modulus (GPa) (°C) (°C) (J/g)

HPP 577 (10) 20.32 5.30 (0.10) 166 2.1 102

HPP-10-130 492 (19) 33.12 2.25 (0.09) 165 -5.5 103

HPP-0-130 552 (12) 24.98 3.76 (0.09) 166 -0.8 102

HPP-10-110 501 (10) 32.34 2.45 (0.08) 166 -6.2 85

HPP-0-110 565 (13) 23.56 4.06 (0.09) 166 1.6 101

CPP 496 (8) 20.58 3.55 (0.12) 165 ~4.6 85

CPP-10-130 426 (8) 36.34 1.82 (0.07) 165 -12.2 85

CPP-0-130 476 (8) 25.67 2.67 (0.10) 164 -5.0 86

CPP-10-110 437 (8) 34.69 1.91 (0.09) 165 -7.0 90

CPP-0-110 485 (8) 24.54 2.74 (0.08) 165 -4.7 84

Table 1. Tensile and thermal properties of polypropylene fibers. Standard deviations are given in parentheses. Materials
are designated as homopolymer (HPP) or copolymer (CPP) with 0 or 10% relaxation and 110° or 130°C annealing
temperature. (data retrieved and adapted from: https://www.mddionline.com/effects-annealing-conditions-structure-
and-properties-polypropylene-fibers)

1.2. (1.5/10 point) Using the table analysis and your personal research, list the main goals of
annealing in polymers.
1.3. (1/10 point) Annealing in polymers is?.... Please provide a discussion between two comic characters
(again!) use the tool available in https://www.storyboardthat.com/es/creador-de-guiones-gr%c3%a1ficos
Paste your storyboard here: