Significantly accelerated spherulitic growth rates for semicrystalline polymers through the layer-by-layer film method

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5882-5893

  Zhang, Yaqiong ^a   Xu, Hongjun ^a   Yang, Jingjing ^a   Chen, Shouyu ^b   Ding, Yunsheng ^b   Wang, Zhigang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURED SURFACES; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LAYER-BY-LAYER FILMS; MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; SPHERULITIC GROWTH RATE;

BLENDING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GLASS; MULTILAYER FILMS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 84875450747     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp400580r     Document Type: Article

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