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The morphology, lateral growth rate and long spacings of isotactic poly(butene-1) (it-PB1) have been investigated for crystallization from the melt over a wide range of crystallization temperature from 50 to 111.9 °C. The morphology of it-PB1 crystals is rounded shape at crystallization temperatures lower than 85 °C, while lamellar single crystals possess faceted morphology at higher crystallization temperatures; the kinetic roughening transition occurs around 85 °C. The nucleation and growth mechanism for crystallization does not work below 85 °C, since the growth face is rough. However, the growth rate and the long spacings show the supercooling dependence derived from the nucleation and growth mechanism; the nucleation theory seems still to work even for rough surface growth. Taking account of a pinning model revised recently by Toda, possible mechanisms for the crystal growth of polymers are discussed.
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Yamashita, M., Miyaji, H., Hoshino, A. et al. Crystal Growth of Isotactic Poly(butene-1) in the Melt. I. Kinetic Roughening. Polym J 36, 226–237 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.36.226
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