Acceleration mechanism in critical nucleation of polymers by epitaxy of nucleating agent

Polymer Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 228-236

  Urushihara, Tsuyoshi ^a   Okada, Kiyoka ^b   Watanabe, Kaori ^b   Toda, Akihiko ^b   Kawamoto, Naoshi ^a   Hikosaka, Masamichi ^b  

^a ADEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epitaxy; Nucleating agent; Nucleation; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; CRITICAL NUCLEATION; CRITICAL NUCLEI; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; EPITAXY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; ISOTACTIC POLY(PROPYLENE) (IPP); KINETIC STUDY; LATERAL SURFACE; NUCLEATING AGENT; NUCLEATING AGENTS; NUCLEATION RATE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PREFACTOR;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NUCLEATION; POLYMERS; POLYPROPYLENES; THERMOPLASTICS;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 67249105000     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1295/polymj.PJ2008116     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. K. Okada, K. Watanabe, T. Urushihara, A. Toda, and M. Hikosaka, Polymer, 48, 401 (2007).
2. T. Urushihara, K. Okada, K. Watanabe, A. Toda, E. Tobita, N. Kawamoto, and M. Hikosaka, Polym. J., 39, 55 (2007).
3. R. Becker and W. Doling, Ann. Phys., 24, 719 (1935).
4. D. Turnbull and J. C. Fisher, J. Chem. Phys., 17, 71 (1949).
5. F. P. Price, in "Nucleation, " A. C. Zettlemoyer, Ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1969, chap. 8, p 405.
6. Y. Takeda, in "Epitakisharu Seityono Mekanizumu (Mechanism of epitaxial growth), " K. Nakajima, ed., Kyoritsu Shuppan, Tokyo, 2002, chap. 5, p180.
7. S. Yoshimoto, T. Ueda, K. Yamanaka, A. Kawaguchi, E. Tobita, and T. Haruna, Polymer, 42, 9627 (2001).
8. M. Hikosaka and T. Seto, Polym. J., 5, 111 (1973).
9. E. J. Clark and J. D. Hoffmann, Macromolecules, 17, 878 (1984).
10. K. Yamada, M. Hikosaka, A. Toda, S. Yamazaki, and K. Tagashira, J. Macromol. Sci. Part B, Phys., 42, 733 (2003).
11. J. Brandrup, E. H. Immergut, D. R. Bloch, and E. A. Grulke, in "Polymer Handbook, " 4th ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2003, V/23.
12. J. J. Janimak, S. Z. D. Cheng, and P. A. Giusti, Macromolecules, 24, 2253 (1991).
13. K. Yamada, M. Hikosaka, A. Toda, S. Yamazaki, and K. Tagashira, Macromolecles, 36, 4790 (2003).
14. K. Yamada, M. Hikosaka, A. Toda, S. Yamazaki, and K. Tagashira, Macromolecles, 36, 4802 (2003). @215. A. Ohkawa, in "Kessho-Seicho (Crystal Growth), " Shokabo Publishing, Tokyo, 1977, chap. 1, p 23.