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Partially Crystalline Polymers

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As a corollary to the basic introduction to polymers in their solid state, this chapter deals with partially crystalline polymers. To begin, we need to ask ourselves which polymers are able to crystallize.

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Koltzenburg, S., Maskos, M., Nuyken, O. (2017). Partially Crystalline Polymers. In: Polymer Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49279-6_5

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