Coexistence of melting and growth during heating of a semicrystalline polymer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Luo, Chuanfu ^a   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLED POLYMERS; MOLECULAR DISORDERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; STEM LENGTHS; SURFACE REGIONS; TRANS STATE;

DYNAMICS; HEATING; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMER MELTS;

MELTING POINT;

EID: 64649102650     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.147801     Document Type: Article

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