50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Crystals and Crystallization: Personal Journeys in a Challenging Research Field

B Lotz, T Miyoshi, SZD Cheng - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Analyzing and understanding the structure and morphology of crystalline polymers has been
and remains to be a major challenge. Some of the issues have resisted analyses for …

Molecular dynamics simulations of polymer crystallization under confinement: Entanglement effect

C Luo, M Kröger, JU Sommer - Polymer, 2017 - Elsevier
We carried out molecular dynamics simulations to study the crystallization of polymer melts
subjected to confinement between two parallel walls. Two types of walls, bare and grafted …

Molecular dynamics simulation of crystallization cyclic polymer melts as compared to their linear counterparts

H Xiao, C Luo, D Yan, JU Sommer - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Large scale molecular dynamics simulations have been performed in the framework of a
coarse-grained poly (vinyl alcohol) model to study the crystallization behavior of long …

Chemical Reactions and Their Kinetics of atactic-Polyacrylonitrile As Revealed by Solid-State 13C NMR

X Liu, Y Makita, Y Hong, Y Nishiyama… - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Inter-and intramolecular chemical reactions and their kinetics for 13C-labeled atactic-
polyacrylonitrile (a PAN) powder heat-treated at 220–290° C under air and vacuum were …

Solid-State NMR Study of the Chain Trajectory and Crystallization Mechanism of Poly(l-lactic acid) in Dilute Solution

S Wang, S Yuan, W Chen, Q He, Y Hong… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The nucleation and growth mechanisms of semicrystalline polymers are a controversial topic
in polymer science. In this work, we investigate the chain-folding pattern, packing structure …

Chain packing in the noncrystalline region of deuterated UHMWPE: A solid-state 2H and 13C NMR study

R Zhang, T Xiao, R Graf, E De-Boer, R Verhoef… - European Polymer …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chain packing in the non-crystalline region of a semi-crystalline polymer is strongly
influenced by the crystallization conditions. Using a single-site catalytic system, deuterated …

Crystallization in melts and poor-solvent solutions of semiflexible polymers: extensive DPD study

PI Kos, VA Ivanov, AV Chertovich - arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09499, 2017 - arxiv.org
In the present work, crystallization in melts and poor-solvent solutions of semiflexible
polymers with different concentration was studied by means of dissipative particle dynamics …

Étude à l'échelle moléculaire des propriétés mécaniques des polymères semi-cristallins

G Clavier - 2017 - theses.hal.science
Dans le cadre d'un projet de modélisation multi-échelle des propriétés mécaniques des
polymères semi-cristallins, nous avons entrepris au cours de cette thèse une étude à …

[PDF][PDF] Chain Trajectory of Semicrystalline Polymers as Revealed by 13 C-13 C Double Quantum NMR

W Chen, Y Hong, S Yuan, T Miyoshi - 2017 - academia.edu
Chain-folding structure of semicrystalline polymers in melt-and solution-grown crystals has
been debated over the past several decades. Recently, 13C-13C double quantum (DQ) …