During industrial processing, such as film blowing and injection molding, semicrystalline
polymers have to be subjected to external flow. Flow changes the nucleation rate, crystal …

Poly (ether ether ketone)(PEEK) is a high-performance, semicrystalline thermoplastic that
has attracted significant interest for material extrusion additive manufacturing techniques …

One of the most intriguing properties of rod-like polymers is the ability to form a nematic
phase. Among a broad variety of external stimuli to promote the isotropic (I)-nematic (N) …

Non‐isothermal crystallization kinetics has been traditionally predicted using the Nakamura
crystal growth model, which is an integral form of the Avrami equation under the assumption …

Bisphenol-A polycarbonate (PC) is an intrinsically crystallizable polymer. Its industrial parts,
however, invariably remain in an amorphous state due to its extremely slow crystallization …

When a semicrystalline polymer melt is processed in intense flow, the nucleation rate can be
accelerated and the resultant morphology is transformed to anisotropic structures. These …

Herein, the flow-induced crystallization coupled with an intrinsic strong memory effect was
investigated via in situ wide-angle X-ray diffraction. A poly (butene-1) random copolymer …

Intervals of shear flow that stretch polymer chains form flow-induced precursors which
accelerate crystallization and transform the crystalline morphology from isotropic spherulites …

This study investigates the effects of specific work on flow-induced crystallization and
orientation in neat poly (ether ether ketone)(PEEK) and its glass fiber-reinforced composites …

In a previous work on a poly (ether ether ketone)(PEEK) melt, above its nominal melting
temperature (T m≅ 335° C), a severe Cox–Merz rule failure was observed. The abrupt …