Poly nucleation behaviour

Wlien linear polystyrene-6-poly(ethylene oxide)-6-poly(e-caprolactone) (SEOC) triblock terpolymers are considered, a variety of phenomena can be found as a function of the copohmer composition. Figure 13.18 presents the results of Arnal et al. to illustrate two extremes in the diverse complexity of phenomena that these terpohmers can display, i.e., coincident heterogeneously nucleated crystallization and coincident homogeneously nucleated crystallization, see below [3,24- 26]. This behavioural richness is due, as has been previously mentioned, to the competition between microphase separation and crystallization of two crystallizable blocks, PEO and PCL, combined with a glassy amorphous one [3,24-26]. 

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