Multimorphological crystallization of shish-kebab structures in isotactic polypropylene: Quantitative modeling of parent-daughter crystallization kinetics

Macromolecules

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5152-5162

  Roozemond, Peter C ^a,c   Ma, Zhe ^a   Cui, Kunpeng ^b   Li, Liangbin ^b   Peters, Gerrit W M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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

^c DSM RESOLVE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; EXPERIMENTS; HEATING; KINETICS; POLYPROPYLENES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AVRAMI COEFFICIENT; FLOW-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; MULTI-PASS RHEOMETER; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SHISH-KEBAB STRUCTURES; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS;

EID: 84905899693     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma501108c     Document Type: Article

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