During industrial processing, such as film blowing and injection molding, semicrystalline
polymers have to be subjected to external flow. Flow changes the nucleation rate, crystal …

The additive manufacturing (AM) technology can manufacture complex parts with
considerable improvements in lead times and lower material wastages. It has enabled …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are employed to study biaxial stretch-induced
crystallization of polymers, during which the individual roles of chain conformation and …

Semicrystalline polymers are an attractive feedstock choice for material extrusion (MatEx)-
based three-dimensional printing processes. However, the printed parts often exhibit poor …

The general aspects of polymer crystallization under external flow, ie, flow-induced
crystallization (FIC) from fundamental theoretical background to multi-scale characterization …

We perform united atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to quantify the role of flow-
induced nematic order in polyethylene (PE) crystal nucleation. Blends of periodic stretched …

The understanding of the mechanisms that determines mechanical performances during
micro-injection molding is crucial to meet the increasing demand for advanced plastic …

To meet the challenge of efficient modeling of film blowing with realistic constitutive
equations for commercial thermoplastic melts, we present a multistage optimization …

One of the most ubiquitous and technologically important phenomena in nature is the
nucleation of homogeneous flowing systems. The microscopic effects of shear on a …

A well-known process used to produce recyclable polymer films by stretching is machine
direction orientation (MDO). During the drawing stage of MDO, a semicrystalline morphology …