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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 51, Issue 15, Pages 6119-6126Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01366
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [IRTG-1642]
- Baden-Wurttemberg Stiftung
- DFG [CH 1741/2-1]
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We report novel morphologies with periodic height modulations of isotactic polystyrene (iPS) crystals, resulting from alternating stacks of correlated lamellae. Systematic experiments were performed on iPS films of several thicknesses (h) for varying degrees of undercooling, Delta T = T-m(infinity) - T-C, where T-m(infinity) and T-C are the equilibrium melting temperature and the crystallization temperature, respectively. We demonstrate that the spatial period (lambda), i.e., the mean distance between neighboring stacks of lamellae, exhibits a power-law dependence on h and an exponential dependence on 1/Delta T. We propose that self-induced nucleation of stacked layers caused periodic deviation in the growth rate of iPS crystals, yielding periodic height modulations.
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