Effect of the Cooling Rate on the Nucleation Kinetics of Poly(l-Lactic Acid) and Its Influence on Morphology

Although the crystallization kinetics of PLLA is slow enough to allow one to obtain amorphous samples by cooling from the melt at moderate rates, surprisingly, at the same time, the formation of crystallization nuclei is difficult to avoid. Their amount depends on the cooling rate from the melt: …