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Confined crystallization of polymeric materials
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In this paper, a change in nucleation mechanism, from heterogeneous nucleation to surface nucleation (or in extreme cases, homogeneous nucleations), was proposed, which reflected that nucleation is the rate determining step in the overall crystallization of ideally confined polymers.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2016-03-01. It has received 257 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nucleation & Crystallization of polymers.read more
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High gas barrier from confined crystallization of polyethylene oxide in nanolayer assemblies
TL;DR: Using an innovative layer-multiplying coextrusion process to obtain assemblies with thousands of polymer nanolayers, a morphology that emerges as confined polyethylene oxide (PEO) layers are made progressively thinner is discovered.
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High electrical conductivity and carrier mobility in oCVD PEDOT thin films by engineered crystallization and acid treatment
Xiaoxue Wang,Xu Zhang,Lei Sun,Dongwook Lee,Sunghwan Lee,Minghui Wang,Junjie Zhao,Yang Shao-Horn,Mircea Dincă,Tomas Palacios,Karen K. Gleason +10 more
TL;DR: The oCVD PEDOT thin films with ultrahigh electrical conductivity and high carrier mobility show great promise for novel high-speed organic electronics with low energy consumption and better charge carrier transport.
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Self-Nucleation Effects on Polymer Crystallization
TL;DR: 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 crystallization as mentioned in this paper.
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The physics of polymer chain-folding
TL;DR: A survey of the current understanding about polymer chain-folding and unfolding in lamellar crystals can be found in this article, where the origin of chainfolding was elaborated by the intramolecular crystal nucleation model, by means of free energy calculation of single chain crystallization.
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Concepts, fabrication methods and applications of living crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers
Sylvia Ganda,Martina H. Stenzel +1 more
TL;DR: This review highlights the recent methodological advances in the field of living CDSA and outlines the fundamental concepts and mechanisms that has been discovered progressively, to encourage the utilization of livingCDSA as a tool to generate advanced functional materials and fuel research efforts towards the application of these fabricated materials.
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Kinetics of Phase Change. I General Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the theory of phase change is developed with the experimentally supported assumptions that the new phase is nucleated by germ nuclei which already exist in the old phase, and whose number can be altered by previous treatment.
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Kinetics of Phase Change. II Transformation‐Time Relations for Random Distribution of Nuclei
TL;DR: In this article, a relation between the actual transformed volume V and a related extended volume V1 ex is derived upon statistical considerations, and a rough approximation to this relation is shown to lead, under the proper conditions, to the empirical formula of Austin and Rickett.
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Granulation, Phase Change, and Microstructure Kinetics of Phase Change. III
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive description of the phenomena of phase change may be summarized in Phase Change, Grain Number and Microstructure Formulas or Diagrams, giving, respectively, the transformed volume, grain, and microstructure densities as a function of time, temperature, and other variables.
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Ordered Metal Nanohole Arrays Made by a Two-Step Replication of Honeycomb Structures of Anodic Alumina
Hideki Masuda,Kenji Fukuda +1 more
TL;DR: A highly ordered metal nanohole array (platinum and gold) was fabricated by a two-step replication of the honeycomb structure of anodic porous alumina that showed a notable color change compared with bulk gold.
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Nanomaterials: a membrane-based synthetic approach.
TL;DR: A relatively new method for preparing nanomaterials, membrane-based synthesis, is reviewed, which entails synthesis of the desired material within the pores of a nanoporous membrane.