Polymer melting kinetics appears to be driven by heterogeneous nucleation

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-209

  Vyazovkin, Sergey ^a   Yancey, Benjamin ^a   Walker, Kahleah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

activation energy; differential scanning calorimetry; melting point; nucleation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FREE ENERGY; MELTING POINT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EFFECTIVE ACTIVATION ENERGY; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; NUCLEATION MODELS; NUCLEATION PARAMETERS; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84892838435     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: 15213935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.201300636     Document Type: Article

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