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. 2019 Sep 6;11(9):1460. doi: 10.3390/polym11091460

Table 5.

Results of DSC measurements of melting temperature, melting enthalpy and degree of crystallinity of the initial PP and samples of the extrudate obtained according to the experimental design layouts (Table 1).

I Heating Cooling II Heating
Design Layout Tm/°C ΔH/J/g Xc/% Tm1/°C Tm2/°C Tc/°C Tm/°C ΔH/J/g Xc/%
PP 168 88 42.1 124 189 118 167 95 45.5
6 173 75 42.7 126 187 121 169 84 47.8
10 173 94 53.5 125 186 127 169 99 56.4
12 169 88 50.1 125 182 123 168 95 54.1
13 170 83 44.1 120 180 122 167 93 49.4
14 170 70 39.9 120 184 121 167 75 42.7

Tm1—initial temperature of the melting process; Tm2—end temperature of the melting process; Tm—maximum temperature of the melting process; Tc—crystallization temperature;ΔH—melting enthalpy; Xc—crystallinity degree.