View Journal Article: A High Throughput Approach to Crystallization in Thin Films of Isotactic Polystyrene
Citation:
Beers, Kathryn, Douglas, Jack, Amis, Eric and Karim, Alamgir (2001). A High Throughput Approach to Crystallization in Thin Films of Isotactic Polystyrene. Polymer Preprints42 (2). .
Crystal growth rates of isotactic polystyrene were measured as a function of temperature and film thickness on continuous gradient films. The measured rates as a function of
temperature agree with those obtained previously. A decrease in G was also observed in progressively thinner regions of the film below h = 50 nm. These results validate the high throughput /
combinatorial approach to investigating polymer crystallization in thin films, accelerating the pace of experimentation by increasing both the material and processing parameter space available for
sampling. Furthermore, the dependence of G on h and T was explored in two dimensions to a degree previously considered unfeasible. Future work includes the investigation of temperature and film
thickness effects on crystal morphology.
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View Journal Article: A High Throughput Approach to Crystallization in Thin Films of Isotactic Polystyrene 