Pathway-dependent melting in a low-molecular-weight polyethylene-block- poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 853-857

  Sun, Lu ^a   Liu, Yuxiu ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a   Hsiao, Benjamin S ^b   Avila Orta, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diblock copolymers; Melting point; Order to disorder transition; Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO); Polyethylene (PE)

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC HEATING; MACROMOLECULES; MELTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

DIBLOCK POLYMERS; ISOTHERMAL CONVERSION; LAMELLAR CRYSTALS; SUPERHEATING;

POLYETHYLENES;

COPOLYMER; POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEATING; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 4544247167     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200300320     Document Type: Article

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