Significant increase in the melting temperature of poly(ε- caprolactone) blocks confined in the crystallized lamellar morphology of poly(ε-caprolactone)-block-polyethylene copolymers

Polymer Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 370-377

  Sakurai, Takuya ^a   Nojima, Shuichi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

crystallinecrystalline diblock copolymer; lamellar morphology; melting temperature

Indexed keywords

CAPROLACTONE; CHAIN STRETCHING; CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; CRYSTALLINE-CRYSTALLINE DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; LAMELLAR MORPHOLOGY; MELTING TEMPERATURE; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MICRO-DOMAIN STRUCTURES; POLYETHYLENE COPOLYMER;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ENTROPY; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYBUTADIENES; POLYETHYLENES; THERMOPLASTICS;

LAMELLAR STRUCTURES;

EID: 79953682828     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2011.4     Document Type: Article

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