A novel view on crystallization and melting of semirigid chain polymers: The case of poly(trimethylene terephthalate)

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 9224-9233

  Ivanov, Dimitri A ^a   Bar, Georg ^b   Dosière, Marcel ^c   Koch, Michel H J ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DES SURFACES ET INTERFACES   (France)

^b Dow Olefinverbund GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; AMORPHOUS LAYERS; AMORPHOUS REGIONS; CHAIN POLYMERS; CRYSTAL THICKNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATIONS; ISOTHERMAL MELTS; LAMELLAR STACKS; MELTING BEHAVIORS; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; POLY(TRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE); POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATIONS; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; SIMPLE MODELS; STANDING PROBLEMS; THERMAL BEHAVIORS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MELTING; METALLIC GLASS; POLYMERS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 64549111652     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801604a     Document Type: Article

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