Progress in Understanding of Polymer Crystallization

✍ Scribed by Murugappan Muthukumar (auth.), Günter Reiter, Gert R. Strobl (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 519
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 714
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the context of polymer crystallization there are several still open and often controversially debated questions. The present volume addresses issues such as

• novel general views and concepts which help to advance our understanding of polymer crystallisation
• nucleation phenomena
• long living melt structures affecting crystallization
• confinement effects on crystallization
• crystallization in flowing melts
• fluid mobility restrictions caused by crystallites
• the role of mesophases in the crystal formation

and presents new ideas in a connected and accessible way. The intention is thus not only to provide a summary of the present state-of-the-art to all active works but to provide an entry point to newcomer and graduate students entering the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Shifting Paradigms in Polymer Crystallization....Pages 1-18
Theoretical Aspects of the Equilibrium State of Chain Crystals....Pages 19-45
Intramolecular Crystal Nucleation....Pages 47-63
Kinetic Theory of Crystal Nucleation Under Transient Molecular Orientation....Pages 65-86
Precursor of Primary Nucleation in Isotactic Polystyrene Induced by Shear Flow....Pages 87-96
Structure Formation and Glass Transition in Oriented Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate)....Pages 97-116
How Do Orientation Fluctuations Evolve to Crystals?....Pages 117-132
Role of Chain Entanglement Network on Formation of Flow-Induced Crystallization Precursor Structure....Pages 133-149
Full Dissolution and Crystallization of Polyamide 6 and Polyamide 4.6 in Water and Ethanol....Pages 151-168
Small Angle Scattering Study of Polyethylene Crystallization from Solutions....Pages 169-178
Morphologies of Polymer Crystals in Thin Films....Pages 179-200
Crystallization of Frustrated Alkyl Groups in Polymeric Systems Containing Octadecylmethacrylate....Pages 201-228
Crystallization in Block Copolymers with More than One Crystallizable Block....Pages 229-259
Monte Carlo Simulations of Semicrystalline Polyethylene: Interlamellar Domain and Crystal-Melt Interface....Pages 261-284
The Role of the Interphase on the Chain Mobility and Melting of Semi-crystalline Polymers; A Study on Polyethylenes....Pages 285-327
Polymer Crystallization Under High Cooling Rate and Pressure: A Step Towards Polymer Processing Conditions....Pages 329-344
Stress-Induced Phase Transitions in Metallocene-Made Isotactic Polypropylene....Pages 345-371
Insights into Polymer Crystallization from In-situ Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 373-389
Temperature and Molecular Weight Dependencies of Polymer Crystallization....Pages 391-425
Step-scan Alternating Differential Scanning Calorimetry Studies on the Crystallisation Behaviour of Low Molecular Weight Polyethylene....Pages 427-434
Order and Segmental Mobility in Crystallizing Polymers....Pages 435-456
Atomistic Simulation of Polymer Melt Crystallization by Molecular Dynamics....Pages 457-480
A Multiphase Model Describing Polymer Crystallization and Melting....Pages 481-502

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Soft Matter, Complex Fluids; Thermodynamics; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering