Break-out crystallization

Figure 10.7 Schematic illustration showing the possible morphology formation in crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers by the crystallization of constituent blocks. The upper route represents break-out crystallization, that is, the microdomain structure is completely replaced with the lamellar morphology, whereas the lower route shows confined crystallization, where the microdomain structure is preserved after crystallization, a-d indicate driving factors for the morphology formation.

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