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Confined crystallization of polymeric materials

Michell, Rose Mary, Müller, Alejandro J.·2016·Progress in Polymer Science

DOI 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2015.10.007

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The interest in confined crystallization has greatly increased with the development and progress of nanotechnology applications. Polymeric confined crystallization has been studied in droplets, ultrathin films , nanolayers , nanostructures from solutions, blends, copolymers , polymers infiltrated within AAO templates and nanocomposites . As confinement increases, the crystallization temperature first decreases, then splits into several fractions (i.e., fractionated crystallization) and finally occurs in one step at the maximum possible supercooling, near the glass transition temperature . Two factors are responsible for these effects: (a) a change in nucleation mechanism , from heterogeneous nucleation to surface nucleation (or in extreme cases, homogeneous nucleation), (b) the dependence of the crystallization temperature on the volume or the surface (or interphase) of the crystallizable micro or nanodomains. The melting point also decreases with confinement but to a lesser degree. A preferential orientation of polymeric crystals is generally induced by one or two dimensional confinement. Avrami indexes decrease with confinement until values of 1 (or even lower) are achieved in the limit of isolated domains, as the material approaches a first order crystallization kinetics . This type of kinetics reflects that nucleation is the rate determining step in the overall crystallization of ideally confined polymers.

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Authors: Michell, R. M., & Müller, A. J.
Affiliations: Universidad Simón Bolívar (VE)
Ikerbasque (ES)
Corresponding author: Müller, Alejandro J.
ORCID: Michell, Rose Mary
Müller, Alejandro J.
Venue: Progress in Polymer Science
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2016-03
Volume: 54-55
Pages: 183-213
ISSN: 0079-6700 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2015.10.007
OpenAlex: W2115956346
Cited by: 351
References: 393
Citations by year: 2026: 26 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 50 · 2016: 9
FWCI: 19.23
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: Progress in Polymer Science (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Crystallization and Solubility Studies
Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
Keywords: confined crystallization, polymer crystallization, nanotechnology, fractional crystallization, supercooling, nucleation mechanism, surface nucleation, heterogeneous nucleation, homogeneous nucleation, melting point depression, crystal orientation, Avrami exponent, crystallization kinetics, nanocomposites, anodic aluminum oxide templates, polymer blends, copolymers, ultrathin films, nanolayers

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