Nucleation control in polymer crystallization: Structural and morphological probes in different length- And time-scales for selection processes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1804, 2003, Pages 517-537

  Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a   Lotz, Bernard ^b   Windle, A H ^c  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Morphology; Nucleation control; Polymer crystallization; Structure; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038362156     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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