Crystallization in thin films of polymer glasses: The role of free surfaces, solid interfaces and their competition

Y Yang, H Tian, S Napolitano, B Zuo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Confined crystallization of polymeric materials

RM Michell, AJ Müller - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The interest in confined crystallization has greatly increased with the development and
progress of nanotechnology applications. Polymeric confined crystallization has been …

Self-nucleation effects on polymer crystallization

L Sangroniz, D Cavallo, AJ Müller - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
The existence of a “memory” of the previous crystalline state, which survives melting and
enhances recrystallization kinetics by a self-nucleation process, is well-known in polymer …

[图书][B] The physics of polymers

GR Strobl, GR Strobl - 1997 - Springer
More than ten years have passed now since the first printing of this book, and I am happy to
say that it is a success. Many thousands of volumes can today be found worldwide in …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Fractionated crystallization in semicrystalline polymers

L Sangroniz, B Wang, Y Su, G Liu, D Cavallo… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The crystallization of heterogeneously nucleated bulk polymers typically occurs in a single
exothermic process, within a narrow temperature range, ie, a single exothermic peak is …

[HTML][HTML] A review on possible mechanisms of sonocrystallisation in solution

S Nalesso, MJ Bussemaker, RP Sear, M Hodnett… - Ultrasonics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sonocrystallisation is the application of ultrasound to the crystallisation process. The
benefits obtained by sonication have been widely studied since the beginning of the 20th …

Nucleation and crystallization in diblock and triblock copolymers

AJ Müller, V Balsamo, ML Arnal - Block copolymers II, 2005 - Springer
Crystallization of block copolymer microdomains can have a tremendous influence on the
morphology, properties and applications of these materials. In this review, particular …

[HTML][HTML] Confinement effects on polymer crystallization: From droplets to alumina nanopores

RM Michell, I Blaszczyk-Lezak, C Mijangos, AJ Müller - Polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
We review previous works on polymer confined crystallization employing strategies that
allow confinement to go from the micron to the nanometer scale: droplets, blends, block …

Polymer crystallization of ultrathin films on solid substrates

YX Liu, EQ Chen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Recently, polymer crystallization in ultrathin films (thickness less than 100nm) on solid
substrates has attracted increased attention. As it can be considered to be a quasi-two …