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Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Poly(butylene terephthalate)/Attapulgite Nanocomposites XUEQIN CHEN,1 JIAJING XU,1 HONGBIN LU,1 YULIANG YANG1,2 1Department of Macromolecular Science, Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Ministry of Education of China, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China 2 Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Received 19 December 2005; revised 27 February 2006; accepted 7 May 2006 DOI: 10.1002/polb.20870 Published online in Wiley InterScience (). ABSTRACT: Poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT)/organo-attapulgite (ATT) nanocompo- sites containing 2.5 and 5 wt % nanoparticles loadings were fabricated via a simple melt-compounding approach. The crystal structure and isothermal crystallization behaviors of PBT composites were studied by wide-angle X-ray diffraction and differen- tial scanning calorimetry, respectively. The X-ray diffraction results indicated that the addition of ATT did not alter the crystal structure of PBT and the crystallites in all the samples were triclinic a-crystals. During the isothermal crystallization, the PBT nano- composites exhibited higher crystallization rates than the neat PBT and the varied Avrami exponents when compared with the neat PBT. At the same time, the regime II/ III transition was also observed in all the samples on the basis of Hoffman-Laurizten theory, but the transition temperature increased with increasing ATT loadings. The fold surface free energy (re) of polymer chains in the nanocomposites was lower than that in the neat PBT. It should be reasonable to treat ATT as a good nucleating agent for the crystallization of PBT, which plays