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General treatment of polymer crystallization kinetics—Part 1. A new macrokinetic equation and its experimental verification
Author(s) -
Malkin A. Ya.,
Beghishev V. P.,
Keapin I. A.,
Bolgov S. A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.760241805
Subject(s) - avrami equation , materials science , autocatalysis , crystallization , isothermal process , kinetics , crystallization of polymers , thermodynamics , polymer , nucleation , composite material , classical mechanics , physics
A new macrokinetic equation of the autocatalytic type is proposed to describe the polymer crystallization process. The derived equation is compared with the known Avrami equation. It is shown to be consistent with the results of isothermal experiments.