Rhythmic growth-induced ring-banded spherulites with radial periodic variation of thicknesses grown from poly(ε-caprolactone) solution with constant concentration

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7584-7595

  Wang, Zongbao ^a   Alfonso, Giovanni C ^b   Hu, Zhijun ^c   Zhang, Jidong ^a   He, Tianbai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BIREFRINGENCE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFRACTION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ATOMIC FORCES; BANDED SPHERULITES; CAPROLACTONE; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; CONCENTRIC RINGS; CRYSTALLIZATION CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION FLUXES; GRAZING INCIDENCES; INITIAL SOLUTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; OPTICAL-; PERIODIC VARIATIONS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHTS; RADIAL GROWTHS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATIONS; SOLVENT EVAPORATIONS; SPHERULITIC GROWTHS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

SOLUTIONS;

EID: 55649088942     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma8005697     Document Type: Article

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