Chain entanglement, either cohesional or topological, distinguishes polymers from other
engineering materials. It impedes the movement of molecular segments and influences the …

The rate of growth of chain-folded lamellar crystals from the subcooled melt of polyethylene
fractions is treated in terms of surface nucleation theory with the objective of illuminating the …

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 …

A theory of crack healing in polymers is presented in terms of the stages of crack healing,
namely,(a) surface rearrangement,(b) surface approach,(c) wetting,(d) diffusion, and (e) …

Although conventional chemical copolymerization method has shown favorable results in
improving certain performance of polymers, simultaneous improvement of overall properties …

Tube-like motion of a single, fluorescently labeled molecule of DNA in an entangled solution
of unlabeled lambda-phage DNA molecules was observed by fluorescence microscopy …

Probably no other field of statistical physics at the borderline of soft matter and biological
physics has caused such a flurry of papers as polymer translocation since the 1994 …

A possible connection is suggested and explored between non-planer crystal habits in
banded polymer spherulites and disordered chain folding in polymers crystallized relatively …

The influence of crystallinity and lamellar thickness on the intrinsic deformation behavior of a
number of semicrystalline polymers is studied: a poly (ethylene terephthalate) and two …

The theory of polymer crystallization with chain folding is extended to include the effect of
reptation in the melt on the rates of crystallization GI and G II in régimes I and II. The result is …