New physical insights into shear history dependent polymorphism in poly(vinylidene fluoride)

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2937-2944

  Gebrekrstos, Amanuel ^a   Sharma, Maya ^a   Madras, Giridhar ^a   Bose, Suryasarathi ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTHERMS; THERMOANALYSIS;

CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CRYSTALLINE MORPHOLOGIES; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLY (VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE)(PVDF); POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84969522979     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00282     Document Type: Article

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