Abstract
Temperature changes of orientation functions for uniaxial drawn polypropylene (iPP) were evaluated by the simultaneous DSC-XRD and DSC-FTIR methods. In order to evaluate the orientation function with high time resolution, two-dimensional CCD detector and MCT detector were used for XRD and FTIR measurements, respectively. The crystallographic and conformational orientation functions of crystal c-axis were obtained from two-dimensional XRD profiles and polarized FTIR spectra, respectively. The uniaxial drawn polypropylene showed the melting peak with a shoulder at lower temperature side. The crystallographic orientation function of c-axis decreased and the conformational orientation function of c-axis increased at temperature below the melting. This fact suggested that the melt-recrystallization was brought into the re-organization of drawn iPP.
