Density fluctuations: The nucleation event in isotactic polypropylene crystallization

Polymer

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2381-2385

  Terrill, Nicholas J ^a,b,c   Fairclough, Patrick A ^a,c   Towns Andrews, Elizabeth ^b   Komanschek, Bernd U ^b   Young, Robert J ^a   Ryan, Anthony J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Nucleation; SAXS WAXS

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EXTRUSION; NUCLEATION; X RAYS;

DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; MELT EXTRUSION; X RAY SCATTERING;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0032075098     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(97)00547-8     Document Type: Article

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