An overview of the research on the melting kinetics of melt-grown folded-chain crystals (FCC) of polymers are provided, focusing particularly on the following aspects: (1) the thermodynamics; (2) Gibbs‒Thomson and Hoffman‒Weeks plots; (3) the unique kinetic barrier of FCC melting; (4) the results using a recently developed FSC with a chip sensor; (5) the exponential dependence of the melting rate on the degree of superheating, as determined from isothermal melting kinetics conducted using FSC; and (6) thermal Gibbs‒Thomson plots as an application of melting kinetics studies.
