Effect of Poly(ethylene oxide) Architecture on the Bulk and Confined Crystallization within Nanoporous Alumina

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 5945-5954

  Yao, Yang ^a   Sakai, Takamasa ^b   Steinhart, Martin ^c   Butt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Floudas, George ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CATALYSTS; DYNAMICS; ETHYLENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMERS;

CONFINED CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUILIBRIUM MELTING POINT; FUNCTIONAL END GROUPS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION TEMPERATURE; POLY (ETHYLENE OXIDE) (PEO); POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84983680226     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01406     Document Type: Article

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