Confinement Effects in Polymer Crystal Nucleation from the Bulk to Few-Chain Systems
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We have studied crystallization in poly(ethylene oxide) droplets with volumes ranging over several orders of magnitude. In all samples, homogeneous nucleation is observed, scaling with the volume of the droplet, down to systems with as few as approximately 10 polymer chains. Surprisingly, nucleation is unaffected by the high degree of confinement, despite a large surface-to-volume ratio and the restriction of chains to length scales much smaller than the radius of gyration. Nucleation was also found to be independent of chain length for two molecular weights studied, differing by an order of magnitude. The results suggest that, for these highly supercooled systems, the formation of a nucleus is influenced by its immediate surroundings and does not depend on the entire length of the constituent chains.
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Dalnoki-Veress et al. pointed out that the homogeneous nucleation mechanism does not depend on molecular weight or chain length and that the formation of a nucleus is only influenced by its immediate surroundings.
“Dalnoki-Veress et al. have pointed out that homogeneous nucleation mech-anism does not depend on the molecular weight or chain length and the formation of a nucleus is only influenced by its immediate surroundings [ 316 , 317 ].”
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- Authors
- Massa, M. V., Carvalho, J. L., & Dalnoki-Veress, K.
- Affiliations
- Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (CA)
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- Physical Review Letters
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- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2006-12-14
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 247802-247802
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- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Material Dynamics and Properties
- Keywords
- polymer crystallization, homogeneous nucleation, poly(ethylene oxide), droplet confinement, chain length dependence, surface-to-volume ratio, polymer crystals
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