A microscopic insight into the deformation behavior of semicrystalline polymers: The role of phase transitions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  De Rosa, Claudio ^a   Auriemma, Finizia ^a   De Ballesteros, Odda Ruiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; POLYPROPYLENES; STRAIN;

POLYMORPHIC FORMS; SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SYNDIOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

POLYPROPYLENE;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYPROPYLENES; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33644977932     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.167801     Document Type: Article

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