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. 2018 Apr 2;4(4):e00592. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00592

Table 3.

Thermal properties of PVA nanofibers before and after solvent vapor treatment at temperature of 40 °C for 4 h.

Sample Treatment At glass phase Transition (Tg)
At melting phase transition (Tm)
DSC Crystallinity (%)
Tg (°C) ΔH (J/g) Tm (°C) ΔH (J/g)
PVA-NF-Untreated 88.5 176.45 229.75 57.50 41.49
PVA-NF-DMF treated 63.5 82.46 229.55 46.10 33.27
PVA-NF-Methanol treated 78.0 115.21 229.03 45.63 32.93
PVA-NF-DMSO treated 55.0 84.17 229.18 37.33 26.94