It is the aim of this article to review the major theories of polymer crystallization since up to now we still have not completely comprehended the underlying mechanism in a unified …
An Updated Edition of the Classic Text Polymers constitute the basis for the plastics, rubber, adhesives, fiber, and coating industries. The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Physical …
C Liu, M Muthukumar - The Journal of chemical physics, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
United-atom Langevin dynamics simulations have been performed in an effort to understand early-stage polymer crystallization at the microscopic level. We have modeled the …
After the discovery of single center metallocene catalysts in the 1980s highly stereoregular syndiotactic polypropylene showing high crystallinity and melting temperature has been …
E Baer, A Hiltner, HD Keith - Science, 1987 - science.org
The diversity of monomers available for synthesis of high polymers makes it possible to prepare a wide variety of long-chain macromolecular compounds. It is instructive to consider …
JD Hoffman, RL Miller - Macromolecules, 1988 - ACS Publications
Theconcept of reptation in high polymer melts is tested for the case of crystallization, where a strong force resulting from the free energy difference between the subcooled liquid and the …
The effect of film thickness on the organization kinetics of ultrathin (50− 1000 Å thick) spin- cast polymer films was studied using poly (di-n-hexylsilane) and UV absorption …
L Hubert, L David, R Seguela, G Vigier, C Degoulet… - Polymer, 2001 - Elsevier
Ethylene/α-olefin copolymers having bimodal molar weight distribution are investigated in comparison with unimodal copolymers in order to understand the incidence of the molecular …