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Morphology and Crystallization of Crystalline/Amorphous Polymer Blends

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Crystallization, phase separation, and glass transition are often individually or interactively encountered in binary crystalline/amorphous polymer blends. Due to the occurrence of crystallization or glass transition, the morphology of the system may be fixed or dynamically depressed so that the system can be trapped in a metastable state. This could lead to a large variety of pattern formations. So we put together this chapter as an overview on the phase transition dynamics and the resulted morphologies under the framework of thermodynamics in crystalline/amorphous polymer blends.

Introduction

Blending is an important method for develo** new materials in polymer science, which may combine the properties from the individual components (Paul and Bucknall 2000; Utracki 2002; Nwabunma and Kyu 2007). Crystalline and amorphous polymers are two main categories in polymer family. Polymer crystals are compact assembly of stereoregular chains and thus exhibit high modulus and...

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  1. Bei**g National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Joint Laboratory of Polymer Science and Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100190, China

    Charles C. Han & Weichao Shi

  2. Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces Academy, Langfang, 065000, China

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Han, C.C., Shi, W., **, J. (2013). Morphology and Crystallization of Crystalline/Amorphous Polymer Blends. In: Palsule, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymers and Composites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37179-0_25-1

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