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Xue J, Lu Y, Wang B, Chen J, Shen C, Zhang B. The Isothermal Melting Kinetics of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Crystals. Macromol Rapid Commun 2024; 45:e2300704. [PMID: 38346444 DOI: 10.1002/marc.202300704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
Abstract
The isothermal melting behaviors of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) with different entangled states (i.e., nascent and melt-crystallized samples) are studied. For two kinds of UHMWPE samples, the result shows that the relative content of survived crystals (Xs) exponentially decreases with time and reaches a constant value. It is suggested that such a melting behavior is related to the observed nonlinear growth of crystals induced by the kinetically rejected entanglements accumulated at the growth front. Additionally, the exponential decay of Xs with time provides a characteristic melting time (τ) for the melting process. Compared to the melt-crystallized UHMWPE, the τ value of nascent UHMWPE is generally longer even in a higher temperature range, which is mainly because the former has a larger entanglement density difference. Furthermore, these observations demonstrate that UHMWPEs with different entangled states have an analogous melting mechanism since they exhibit a similar melting activation energy (≈1300 kJ mol-1).
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- Jianwei Xue
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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Bessif B, Pfohl T, Heck B, Alshetwi Y, Khechine E, Xu J, Reiter G. In Situ Dissolution and Swelling of Confined Lamellar Polymer Crystals through Exposure to Humid Air. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Brahim Bessif
- Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
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- Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Guerin G, Rupar PA, Winnik MA. In-Depth Analysis of the Effect of Fragmentation on the Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly Growth Kinetics of 1D Micelles Studied by Seed Trapping. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:3122. [PMID: 34578023 PMCID: PMC8472273 DOI: 10.3390/polym13183122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Studying the growth of 1D structures formed by the self-assembly of crystalline-coil block copolymers in solution at elevated temperatures is a challenging task. Like most 1D fibril structures, they fragment and dissolve when the solution is heated, creating a mixture of surviving crystallites and free polymer chains. However, unlike protein fibrils, no new nuclei are formed upon cooling and only the surviving crystallites regrow. Here, we report how trapping these crystallites at elevated temperatures allowed us to study their growth kinetics at different annealing times and for different amounts of unimer added. We developed a model describing the growth kinetics of these crystallites that accounts for fragmentation accompanying the 1D growth process. We show that the growth kinetics follow a stretched exponential law that may be due to polymer fractionation. In addition, by evaluating the micelle growth rate as a function of the concentration of unimer present in solution, we could conclude that the micelle growth occurred in the mononucleation regime.
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- Gerald Guerin
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada
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- Zhixin Guo
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Experimental Polymer Physics, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder Str. 3, Freiburg 79104, Germany
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
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- Experimental Polymer Physics, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder Str. 3, Freiburg 79104, Germany
- Freiburg Materials Research Center, Stefan-Meier-Straße 21, Freiburg 79104, Germany
- Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT), University of Freiburg, Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee 105, Freiburg 79110, Germany
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Palacios JK, Zhang H, Zhang B, Hadjichristidis N, Müller AJ. Direct identification of three crystalline phases in PEO-b-PCL-b-PLLA triblock terpolymer by In situ hot-stage atomic force microscopy. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Wang B, He K, Lu Y, Zhou Y, Chen J, Shen C, Chen J, Men Y, Zhang B. Nucleation Mechanism for Form II to I Polymorphic Transformation in Polybutene-1. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Binghua Wang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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Affiliation(s)
- Günter Reiter
- Physikalisches Institut and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Shen J, Zhou Y, Lu Y, Wang B, Shen C, Chen J, Zhang B. Later Stage Melting of Isotactic Polypropylene. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Junfang Shen
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
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Li H, Liu D, Bu X, Zhou Z, Ren Z, Sun X, Reiter R, Yan S, Reiter G. Formation of Asymmetric Leaf-Shaped Crystals in Ultrathin Films of Oriented Polyethylene Molecules Resulting from High-Temperature Relaxation and Recrystallization. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Huihui Li
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Institute of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
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- Institute of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany
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Wang B, Chen J, Shen C, Reiter G, Zhang B. Relation Between Charge Transport and the Number of Interconnected Lamellar Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) Crystals. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Binghua Wang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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Wang B, Zhang B, Shen C, Chen J, Reiter G. Generating Nanoscopic Patterns in Conductivity within a Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystal via Bias-Controlled Scanning Probe Nanolithography. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Binghua Wang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Wang B, Tang S, Wang Y, Shen C, Reiter R, Reiter G, Chen J, Zhang B. Systematic Control of Self-Seeding Crystallization Patterns of Poly(ethylene oxide) in Thin Films. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Binghua Wang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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Zhang B, Chen J, Liu B, Wang B, Shen C, Reiter R, Chen J, Reiter G. Morphological Changes of Isotactic Polypropylene Crystals Grown in Thin Films. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Bin Zhang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute
of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute
of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Zhang B, Wang B, Chen J, Shen C, Reiter R, Chen J, Reiter G. Flow-Induced Dendritic β-Form Isotactic Polypropylene Crystals in Thin Films. Macromolecules 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Bin Zhang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Xu J, Heck B, Ye HM, Jiang J, Tang YR, Liu J, Guo BH, Reiter R, Zhou DS, Reiter G. Stabilization of Nuclei of Lamellar Polymer Crystals: Insights from a Comparison of the Hoffman–Weeks Line with the Crystallization Line. Macromolecules 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jun Xu
- Advanced
Materials Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute
of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
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- Department
of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials
and Technology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Coordination
Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Advanced
Materials Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Advanced
Materials Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Advanced
Materials Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute
of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department
of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials
and Technology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Coordination
Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Institute
of Physics and Freiburg Materials Research Center, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Xu KL, Guo BH, Reiter R, Reiter G, Xu J. Simulation of secondary nucleation of polymer crystallization via a model of microscopic kinetics. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2015.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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