Homogeneous crystallization of poly(ethylene oxide) confined to droplets: The dependence of the crystal nucleation rate on length scale and temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Massa, Michael V ^a   Dalnoki Veress, Kari ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYSTYRENES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE);

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 3343003840     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.255509     Document Type: Article

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