Supercooling-controlled heterogeneous and homogenous crystal nucleation of polyamide 11 and its effect onto the crystal/mesophase polymorphism

Polymer

Volumn 106, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-34

  Rhoades, Alicyn M ^a   Wonderling, Nichole ^b   Schick, Christoph ^c   Androsch, René ^d  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystal nucleation; Crystal mesophase polymorphism; Polyamide 11

Indexed keywords

ISOTHERMS; NUCLEATION; PHASE STRUCTURE; POLYPROPYLENES; SUPERCOOLING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; HETEROGENEOUS CRYSTALS; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; POLYAMIDE 11; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS;

EID: 84994201534     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2016.10.050     Document Type: Article

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