Role of the Entangled Amorphous Network in Tensile Deformation of Semicrystalline Polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Men, Yongfeng ^a   Rieger, Jens ^a   Strobl, Gert ^b  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; MELTING; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); TENSILE STRESS;

TENSILE DEFORMATION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0142089087     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.095502     Document Type: Article

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