Non-Radial Growth of Helical Homopolymer Crystals: Breaking the Paradigm of the Polymer Spherulite Microstructure

Martin Rosenthal, Jaime J. Hernandez, Yaroslav I. Odarchenko, Michela Soccio, Nadia Lotti, Emanuela Di Cola, Manfred Burghammer, Dimitri A. Ivanov

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1815-1819
Number of pages5
JournalMacromolecular rapid communications
Volume34
Issue number23-24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2013

Keywords

  • banded polymer spherulite
  • crystalline lamella twist
  • helicoid
  • maltese cross
  • polymer crystallization
  • X-ray nanodiffraction
  • EXTINCTION PATTERNS
  • CRYSTALLIZATION
  • MORPHOLOGY
  • ORIGIN
  • ORIENTATION
  • MODEL

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