Crystal nucleation enhanced at the diffuse interface of immiscible polymer blends

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Ma, Yu ^a,b   Zha, Liyun ^a   Hu, Wenbing ^a   Reiter, Günter ^b   Han, Charles C ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DILUTION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MEAN FIELD THEORY; MECHANICS; MELTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; POWDERS; STEELMAKING; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

(1 1 1) ORIENTATION; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); BINARY POLYMER BLENDS; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; DIFFUSE INTERFACES; DRIVING FORCES; DYNAMIC MONTE CARLO (DMC) SIMULATIONS; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; IMMISCIBLE POLYMERS; MEAN FIELD THEORY (MFT); MISCIBLE BLENDS; TWO PHASE;

MELTING POINT;

EID: 44849093539     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.061801     Document Type: Article

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