Hindered Crystallization of a Cyanurate Trimer under Nanopore Confinement

摘要

Nanoconfinement is known to depress the melting temperature through the well-known Gibbs-Thompson equation. Less well studied is the influence of nanoconfinement on crystallization kinetics. In this work, we investigate crystallization of a cyanurate trimer using differential scanning calorimetry. The material shows cold crystallization and subsequent melting in the bulk state. Under the nanoconfinement of controlled pore glasses (CPG), cold crystallization and melting shift to lower temperatures, following the shift in the glass transition temperature.