Flow-induced Crystallization (FIC) is an important area in polymer processing and has since a long time been researched intensively. Here, the FIC study extends into the high flow rate range, comparable to that encountered in real processing, and considers two main flow types: shear and elongational. The second topic is to investigate the effects of several molecular parameters on the crystallization behaviour. Polybutene-1 (PB-1) was chosen as the research material because of its relatively slow crystallization kinetics, allowing observations to be made without too much difficulty. It is the...
Flow-induced Crystallization (FIC) is an important area in polymer processing and has since a long time been researched intensively. Here, the FIC stu...