Melting of poly(ε-caprolactone) studied by step-heating calorimetry

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 717-724

  Sasaki, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystal melting; DSC; Poly( caprolactone); Step heating

Indexed keywords

CAPROLACTONE; CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; DSC; ENERGY VALUE; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; LAMELLAR THICKNESS; LATERAL SURFACE; MELTING KINETICS; MELTING RATES; MODEL MATERIALS; NUCLEATION MODELS; POLYMER MELTING; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; STEP-HEATING; TEMPERATURE MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEATING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MELTING;

EID: 84872500391     PISSN: 13886150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-012-2209-6     Document Type: Article

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