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Shifting Paradigms in Polymer Crystallization

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Progress in Understanding of Polymer Crystallization

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 714))

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Classical concepts on polymer crystallization are under revision, due to the demands made by a wealth of new information acquired from experiments and computer simulations that explore the time-resolved molecular details of the crystallization process. A brief summary of the classical ideas and the contrasting new results is presented here.

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  1. Polymer Science and Engineering Department, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA

    Murugappan Muthukumar

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  1. CNRS-UHA, Institut de Chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces (ICSI), 15 rue Jean Starcky, 68057, Mulhouse Cedex, France

    Günter Reiter

  2. Fakultät für Physik und Mathematik, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, 79104, Freiburg, Germany

    Gert R. Strobl

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Muthukumar, M. (2007). Shifting Paradigms in Polymer Crystallization. In: Reiter, G., Strobl, G.R. (eds) Progress in Understanding of Polymer Crystallization. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47307-6_1

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