Modeling thermal welding of semicrystalline polymers

S Adhikari, CJ Durning, J Fish, JW Simon… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thermal welding involves joining two polymeric layers by heating only their surfaces above
their melting point and bringing them into intimate contact. While it is generally accepted that …

Physics of Directional Polymer Crystallization

CJ Durning, A Purushothaman, S Adhikari… - ACS Macro …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It has been proposed that the nonisothermal directional crystallization of a polymer driven by
a moving sink has an exact analogy to an equivalent isothermal crystallization protocol. We …

Directional polymer crystallisation with a fast-moving sink

A Purushothaman, S Adhikari, C Durning, SK Kumar… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
It has previously been shown that non-isothermal directional polymer crystallisation driven
by local melting (Zone Annealing), has a close analogy with an equivalent isothermal …

[BOOK][B] Directional Nanoparticle Organization in Semicrystalline Polymers: Mechanisms and Quantification Methodologies

AA Krauskopf - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The commodity plastics industry is dominated by semicrystalline polymers, which generally
display high toughness relative to amorphous polymers but typically suffer from low strength …

Using Crystallization to Control Filler Dispersion and Vice Versa in Polymer Nanocomposites

P Keblinski, L Schadler - 2022 - osti.gov
Our overall goal was to exploit our ability to control the spatial dispersion of spherical
nanoparticles in a semicrystalline polymer matrix to tune the properties of the resulting …