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Competing Growth Kinetics in Simultaneously Crystallizing and Phase-Separating Polymer Blends
Published
Author(s)
Haonan Wang, K Shimizu, H W. Kim, Erik K. Hobbie, G Z. Wang, Charles C. Han
Abstract
The kinetic interplay between crystallization and phase separation in a polymer blend has been examined. By controlling the relative quench depths for liquid-liquid phase separation and crystallization, the growth kinetics of the characteristic length scales of the simultaneous ordering processes show a crossover from crystallization dominated to phase-separation dominated behavior. Based on a scaling argument of the late stage spinodal decomposition, the kinetic crossover is inevitable in a blend where the critical temperature for the liquid-liquid phase separation is above the equilibrium melting temperature of the blend.
Wang, H.
, Shimizu, K.
, Kim, H.
, Hobbie, E.
, Wang, G.
and Han, C.
(2002),
Competing Growth Kinetics in Simultaneously Crystallizing and Phase-Separating Polymer Blends, Journal of Chemical Physics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=851974
(Accessed October 2, 2025)