Isotactic polystyrene spherulitic growth rate

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FIGURE 11.1 Radial growth rate r of spherulites of isotactic polystyrene as a function of the crystallization temperature. 

Figure 4.20 Plots of growth rate of the spherulite versus degree of undercooling, AT, under isothermal conditions [38). (a) Isotactic polystyrene (b) nylon 6 (c) polyoxypropy-lene (d) polychlorotrifluoroethylene...

Fig. 4.16. Temperature dependence of the radial growth rate u of spherulites in isotactic polystyrene left), polyamid 6 (center) and poly(tetramethyl-p-silpheylene siloxane) (right). Data from different authors taken from [39]...

Example 11.3 Kennedy and co-workers used photomicroscopy to measure the radial growth rate of spherulites of isotactic polystyrene at a variety of constant temperatures [11]. These data are shown in Figure 11.10. Show that the results are consistent with Eq. (11.3.9). 

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