Spinodal-assisted crystallization in polymer melts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 373-376

  Olmsted, P D ^a   Poon, W C K ^b   McLeish, T C B ^a   Terrill, N J ^c   Ryan, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0008019022     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.373     Document Type: Article

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