Kinetics of nucleation and crystallization in poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)

Polymer

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1983-1997

  Zhuravlev, Evgeny ^a   Schmelzer, Jürn W P ^a   Wunderlich, Bernhard ^b,c   Schick, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Fast scanning calorimetry; Nucleation

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS; GROWTH KINETICS; MELTING; NUCLEATION; SPECIFIC HEAT;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; EQUILIBRIUM MELTING TEMPERATURE; FAST-SCANNING CALORIMETRIES; KINETICS OF NUCLEATION; POLY (EPSILONCAPROLACTONE); RIGID AMORPHOUS FRACTION (RAF); TEMPERATURE RANGE;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 79954423287     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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