Abstract
Nylon 46, a novel engineering plastic produced by DSM (trade name STANYL), shows excellent properties compared to other aliphatic nylons like N66, and N6 in stiffness, dimensional stability, chemical resistance, creepmodulus etc. at higher temperatures. These properties are evidently related to a higher degree of crystallinity and a higher melting temperature. The determination of the crystallinity of nylon 46 presented however a problem because of the large discrepancies between the results of different crystallinity determination techniques. These differences, and the remarkable thermal behaviour of nylon 46, could largely be explained by imperfections in the crystal structure.
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Berks, W.H.P., Moonen, J.A.H.M., Ramaekers, F.J.W., Kooij, C.J., Smeets, J. (1991). Crystallinity determination on imperfect crystal structures of Nylon 46. In: Lemstra, P.J., Kleintjens, L.A. (eds) Integration of Fundamental Polymer Science and Technology—5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3890-1_17
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