Under confinement, unique features of crystallization arise, among which the slowing down
and accelerating crystallization on cooling are both reported. The controversy can be …

Crystallization is an important property of polymeric materials. In conventional viewpoint, the
transformation of disordered chains into crystals is usually a spatially homogeneous process …

The cold crystallization process in poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) spin-coated ultrathin
films was studied by infrared spectroscopy. The conformational change associated to the …

The morphology/habit of crystals of cold-crystallized poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) has
been evaluated using scanning and transmission electron microscopy and using atomic …

Confined at the nanoscale level, polymers crystallize much slower than in bulk, and in some
cases, the formation of ordered structure is inhibited within extremely long experimental time …

Reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy was used to study the crystallization behavior
of poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) ultrathin films. The crystallinity of ultrathin films was …

Poly (ethylene terephtalate)(PET) crystallization was shown by atomic force microscopy
(AFM) to occur at 85° C in the first few nanometers near the polymer–air interface. The …

Ultrathin polymer films exhibit a liquidlike mobile surface layer near the free surface, which
plays an important role in the size-dependent physical properties of polymer nanomaterials …

A novel crystal morphology called terrace appearing in the crystallization of poly (ethylene
terephthalate)(PET) is studied. This morphology is confirmed to be inherent to the polymer …

In-situ grazing incidence X-ray diffraction has been used to investigate the kinetics of
crystallization at the surface of thin films of poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET). By varying the …