Influence of thermal prehistory on crystal nucleation and growth in polymers

Glass: Selected Properties and Crystallization

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-94

  Schick, Christoph ^a   Zhuravlev, Evgeny ^a   Androsch, René ^b   Wurm, Andreas ^a   Schmelzer, Jürn W P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

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CRYSTAL NUCLEATION AND GROWTHS; THERMAL PREHISTORY;

EID: 84979155872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110298581.1     Document Type: Chapter

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