Fig. 1: Competing timescales of crystal growth (τlc) and intracrystalline chain dynamics (〈τc〉, τstem). | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Competing timescales of crystal growth (τlc) and intracrystalline chain dynamics (〈τc〉, τstem).

From: Competition between crystal growth and intracrystalline chain diffusion determines the lamellar thickness in semicrystalline polymers

Fig. 1

a Schematic illustration of the crystallization process with τlc, 〈τc〉, and τstem. b Growth velocity μ of poly(oxymethylene) for two molecular weights (POM130 and POM212) as a function of crystallization temperature Tc. The inset illustrates how μ is determined from the growth of spherulites during isothermal crystallization. c Arrhenius temperature dependence of the jump correlation time 〈τc〉 for two molecular weights (POM130 and POM212) isothermally crystallized at different Tc.

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