Homogeneous nucleation and mesophase formation in glassy isotactic polypropylene

Polymer

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 277-282

  Mileva, Daniela ^a   Androsch, René ^a   Zhuravlev, Evgeny ^b   Schick, Christoph ^b   Wunderlich, Bernhard ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Isotactic polypropylene; Nucleation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; ISOTHERMAL ANNEALING; NUCLEATION; TEMPERATURE;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; EQUILIBRIUM MELTING TEMPERATURE; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; MESOPHASE FORMATION; MOLECULAR SEGMENTS; NON-COOPERATIVE; ORDERED DOMAINS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84855852858     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2011.11.064     Document Type: Article

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