Thermodynamics of formation, reorganization, and melting of confined nanometer-sized polymer crystals

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1257-1260

  Röttele, Andreas ^a   Thurn Albrecht, Thomas ^a   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^b   Reiter, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CALORIMETRY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; MELTING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; SUPERCOOLING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTAL REORGANIZATION;

POLYCRYSTALS;

EID: 0037465378     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma021434c     Document Type: Article

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