Impact of Entanglement on Folding of Semicrystalline Polymer during Crystallization

• Published in: ACS macro letters Vol. 12; no. 8; pp. 1138 - 1143
• Main Authors: Jin, Fan, Huang, Zheng, Zheng, Ying, Sun, Chenxuan, Kafle, Navin, Ma, Jiayang, Pan, Pengju, Miyoshi, Toshikazu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 15.08.2023

Upon cooling, semicrystalline polymers experience crystallization and form alternatively stacked layers consisting of thin crystal lamellae and amorphous ones. The unique morphology, crystallinity, and crystallization kinetics highly depend on the molecular weight. Therefore, it is deduced that enta...