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- Title
Crystallization of poly(ethylene-co-octene): II. Melt memory effects on first order kinetics.
- Authors
Häfele, A; Heck, B; Hippler, T; Kawai, T; Kohn, P; Strobl, G
- Abstract
Dilatometric and X-ray scattering experiments of the crystallization kinetics of a sample of poly(ethylene-co-octene) show pronounced melt memory effects, i.e., the shapes of isotherms and characteristic times vary systematically with the temperature of the melt prior to cooling to the crystallization temperature. The temperature range of the effect is limited; crystallization kinetics remains constant below a melt temperature T(m)l and above a melt temperature T(m)h and varies only in-between. Analysis shows that the melt memory effect is caused by a variation of the characteristic time of a first order crystallization process. The process can be assigned to the in-filling of crystallites into objects of a previously generated precursor structure.
- Publication
The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2005, Vol 16, Issue 2, p217
- ISSN
1292-8941
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1140/epje/e2005-00023-0