Reversible melting in polymer crystals detected by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1758-1764

  Okazaki, Iwao ^a   Wunderlich, Bernhard ^b  

^a TORAY INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MACROMOLECULES; MELTING; NUCLEATION; TEMPERATURE;

MOLECULAR NUCLEATION; TEMPERATURE MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

EID: 0031098599     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma961539d     Document Type: Article

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