Melting of Isochronously Decorated Single Crystals of Linear Polyethylene, As Monitored by Atomic Force Microscopy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Dimitri A. Ivanov; Marcel Dosière; Nicolas Dubreuil; Stephane Hocquet
- Source
- Macromolecules. 37:1-5
- Subject
- Fusion
Polymers and Plastics
Annealing (metallurgy)
Organic Chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Mineralogy
Conductive atomic force microscopy
Polyethylene
Inorganic Chemistry
Linear low-density polyethylene
Crystal
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Thermal
Materials Chemistry
Single crystal
- Language
- ISSN
- 1520-5835
0024-9297
The atomic force microscopy study of thermal behavior of truncated crystal of LPE alternately crystallized from n-octane at Tc1=98 and Tc2=95°C was performed. It was found that the morphological evolution during annealing of iso-height crystal regions is nonuniform.