Thermodynamic description and unidirectional solidification of eutectic organic alloys: IV. Binary systems neopentylglycol–succinonitrile and amino-methyl-propanediol–succinonitrile Original Research Article

The temperature and enthalpy of transformations of organic alloys from the binary systems neopentylglycol–succinonitrile (NPG–SCN) and 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol–succinonitrile (AMPD–SCN) were measured by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The phase diagrams of these binary systems were assessed via the CALPHAD approach using Thermo-Calc by simultaneously optimizing the thermodynamic and phase equilibrium data measured in the present work. Proper agreements between the experimental and calculated data for the phase diagrams as well as for the thermochemical properties were achieved. Experiments and calculations show that both the NPG–SCN and the AMPD–SCN systems exhibit a non-variant eutectic reaction with the eutectic point at 90.45 mol% SCN (318.0 K) and at 97.39 mol% SCN (325.7 K), respectively. In the NPG–SCN system the temperature of the eutectic reaction is about 3 K higher than the temperature of the transformation from the ordered crystals (OCs) to the orientationally disordered crystals (ODICs), whereas the eutectic reaction in the AMPD–SCN involves the OCs of AMPD and the ODICs of SCN. Unidirectional solidification experiments were performed with selected NPG–SCN and AMPD–SCN alloys in order to verify phases involved in solid–liquid equilibria and the nature of eutectic growth in these systems. We find that eutectic growth in NPG–SCN eutectic alloy occurs with both solid phases being non-facetted and with a rod-like eutectic structure. The eutectic as well as some hypo-eutectic alloys from the AMPD–SCN system show irregular eutectic growth with a non-facetted BCC_A2 phase of SCN and a facetted monoclinic phase of AMPD.