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The appearance of an endothermic annealing peak in semicrystalline poly(phenylene sulphide) and semicrystalline poly(ethylene terephthalate) after annealing at or above the cold-crystallization temperature is investigated by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry, thermo-mechanical analysis and dynamic-mechanical analysis. The results indicate relaxation processes in the interlamellar amorphous phase, which is in a strongly constrained state after cold crystallization. During the annealing treatments rearranging processes take place. These processes result in a separation of the amorphous phase into an interlamellar relaxed and a “pseudo-crystalline” phase.
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Received: 27 October 1998 Accepted in revised form: 19 January 1999
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Bonnet, M., Rogausch, KD. & Petermann, J. The endothermic “annealing peak” of poly(phenylene sulphide) and poly(ethylene terephthalate). Colloid Polym Sci 277, 513–518 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050418
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050418