Crystallization of polyamide 56/polyamide 66 blends: Non‐isothermal crystallization kinetics

ABSTRACT The non‐isothermal crystallization behaviors of PA56, PA66, and PA56/PA66 blends were studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The Jeziorny and Mo's methods were used to analyze their non‐isothermal crystallization kinetics. The results indicated that Mo's method was better to describe the experimental data in this work. The crystallization rate of PA56 was much slower than that of PA66. The crystallization rate of PA56/PA66 blend was speeded up significantly with the increasing PA66 content when the PA66 content was less than 30 wt %. Further increase in the PA66 content only leads to relatively less increase of the crystallization rate in the PA56/PA66 blends. Activation energies have been determined with Friedman method. The activation energy of PA56/PA66 blends is decreased and lower than that of PA56. PA66 may play a role of nucleating agent toward PA56 to make it crystallize more easily in PA56/PA66 blends. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018 , 135 , 46409.