Understanding self-poisoning phenomenon in crystal growth of short-chain polymers

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 113, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 13485-13490

  Ma, Yu ^a   Qi, Bo ^a   Ren, Yijin ^a   Ungar, Goran ^b,c   Hobbs, Jamie K ^b   Hu, Wenbing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MELTING POINT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMERS;

BASAL PLANES; CHAIN EXTENSION; CHAIN FOLDING; CHAIN GROWTH; CRYSTAL THICKENING; CRYSTAL THICKNESS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DYNAMIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; GROWTH FRONT; LAMELLAR CRYSTALS; LATERAL GROWTH; LATTICE POLYMERS; MONODISPERSE; SECONDARY CRYSTALLIZATION; SHORT-CHAIN POLYMERS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 70349977031     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp809785r     Document Type: Article

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