Crystallization in nano-confined polymeric systems

Alejandro J. Muller, Maria Luisa Arnal, and Arnaldo T. Lorenzo 

Grupo de PoUmeros USB, Departamento de Ciencia de los Materiales, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela 

1 Crystallization within Diblock Copolymers that are Strongly Segregated or Miscible and Contain only One Crystalhzable 

2 Crystallization within Strongly Segregated Double-Crystalline Diblock Copolymers and Triblock Copolymers, 355 

Many new materials or devices are produced in the micron or the nano scale. Therefore, if they can crystallize, the materials employed have to nucleate and crystallize within the designed microdomains (MDs). We will refer to isolated crystallizable phases in general terms as MDs even though depending on the material, these phases can have nano-scale confinement in one, two or three dimensions (e.g., lamellae, cylinders, or spheres). Confinement usually implies dispersion of a crystallizable phase into many MDs. 

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Muller AJ, Arnal ML, Lorenzo AT. Crystallization in nano-confined polymeric systems. In Piorkowska E, Rutledge G, editors. Handbook of Polymer Crystallization. New York Wiley 2013. 

Muller AJ, Arnal M, Lorenzo AT. Crystallization in nano-confined polymeric systems. In Piorkowska E, Rutledge G, editors. Handbook of polymer crystallization. Chapter 12, page 347-72, WUey sons, 2013. Cdrdova ME, Lorenzo AT, MUller AJ, Gani L, Tence-Girault S, Leibler L. The influence of blend morphology (co-continuous or sub-micrometer droplets dispersions) on the nucleation and crystallization... 

CRYSTALLIZATION IN NANO-CONFINED POLYMERIC SYSTEMS TABLE 12.4 Formulation Parameters and Characterization Results of the PP-g-MA Dispersions Prepared in the Pressure Vessel. Reprinted from Reference [22] with Permission from Elsevier, Copyright 2004 ... 

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