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Polymer Crystallization

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Crystalline states offer hardness and toughness necessary to polymer materials. The liquid crystalline state sometimes occurs as a stable or metastable mesophase during phase transitions. The mean-field lattice theory predicts the properties of equilibrium melting points. The intramolecular nucleation model describes the initiation and growth of chain-folded lamellar crystals. The final metastable morphology of crystallites is controlled by both the crystal nucleation and growth. The Avrami equation is commonly employed to treat the time evolution of crystallinity, even during nonisothermal crystallization processes.

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Hu, W. (2013). Polymer Crystallization. In: Polymer Physics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0670-9_10

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