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Flow Induced Processes Causing Oriented Crystallization

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The investigations in this field started around the year 1970. From the beginning shear flow and extensional flow experiments were carried out. Another classification was with respect to experiments, where flow was continued until the viscosity of the melt started to increase rapidly, and those where the progress of crystallization was followed during flow in a more subtle way by dilatometry , by scattering experiments or by a count of upcoming nuclei.

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Janeschitz-Kriegl, H. (2018). Flow Induced Processes Causing Oriented Crystallization. In: Crystallization Modalities in Polymer Melt Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77317-9_3

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