Crystallization in Nano‐Confined Polymeric Systems
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This chapter discusses the principal aspects and advances of crystallization within confined geometries. Confined crystallization is a phenomenon that occurs in droplet dispersions, polymer blends, block copolymers, and thin films. Confinement has many consequences on the nucleation and crystallization behavior. Among the most notorious are the production of fractionated crystallization and the possibility of isolating crystallizable phases whose nucleation may be very different: heterogeneous, superficial, or homogeneous nucleation. In specific cases confinement can also lead to crystal modifications for polymorphic polymers. In specific block copolymer cases, fractionated crystallization can lead to fractionated melting with little apparent reorganization during the scan. The reorganization process during heating scans that may occur in confined microdomains (MDs) are in most cases due to the large supercoolings involved in the production of the crystals rather than to confinement effects.
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- Authors
- Müller, A. J., Arnal, M. L., & Lorenzo, A. T.
- Affiliations
- Universidad Simón Bolívar (VE)
- Venue
- Handbook of Polymer Crystallization
- Publisher
- Wiley
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- 2013-07
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- 347-378
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- W1512957442
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- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
- Keywords
- confined crystallization, polymer blends, block copolymers, thin films, droplet dispersion, nucleation, fractional crystallization, polymorphism, supercooling, heterogeneous nucleation, homogeneous nucleation, surface nucleation
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