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Spinodal-Assisted Crystallization in Polymer Melts
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Recent experiments in some polymer melts quenched below the melting temperature have reported spinodal kinetics in small-angle x-ray scattering before the emergence of a crystalline structure. To explain these observations we propose that the coupling between density and chain conformation induces a liquid-liquid binodal within the equilibrium liquid-crystalline solid coexistence region. A simple phenomenological theory is developed to illustrate this idea, and several experimentally testable consequences are discussed. Shear is shown to enhance the kinetic role of the hidden binodal.
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- Authors
- Olmsted, P. D., Poon, W. C. K., McLeish, T. C. B., Terrill, N. J., & Ryan, A. J.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1998-07-13
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 373-376
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W2138323178
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- 388
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- 21.17
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- green
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