2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Crystallization and Properties of Semi-Crystalline Polymers

This session focuses on research on polymer crystallization and semi-crystalline polymers, including crystallization kinetics, crystallization from the glassy state, crystallization in confined, multiphase, and structured systems, morphological studies, and structure-property-processing relationships in semi-crystalline polymers.

Chair

Julie Albert, Tulane University

Co-Chair

Doug R. Tree, Brigham Young University

Presentations

08:00 AM

(653a) Suppression of Crystallization in Ultra-Thin and Thin Films of Cellulose Acetates and Their Blends and Its Effect on Gas Transport Characteristics
Hien Nguyen, Haiqing Lin, Yifu Ding, Mengyuan Wang, Kazukiyo Nagai, Ming-Yin Hsiao

08:15 AM

(653b) Carefully Controlled Photo-Crosslinkable PLA Networks
Nicholas Baksh, Ryan Toomey, Nathan Gallant

08:30 AM

(653c) Structure-Processing-Property Relationships of 3-Hexylthiophene-Containing Statistical Copolymers
Bryan Beckingham, Michael Minkler, Jihyuk Kim, Tucker Sparks

08:45 AM

(653d) Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Model Anisotropic Particles from Diblock Copolymers
Avanish Bharati, Steven D. Hudson, Katie Weigandt

09:00 AM

(653e) Hierarchical Crystallization Processes in Double-Crystalline PEO-B-PCL Copolymers
Ryan Van Horn

09:30 AM

(653f) Slip-Link Modeling of a Crystallizing Entangled Polymer Melt
Marat Andreev, Gregory Rutledge

09:45 AM

(653g) The Effect of Flow-Induced Fluctuations on Crystal Nucleation in the Polyethylene Melt
David A. Nicholson, Gregory Rutledge

10:00 AM

(653h) In Situ Formation of Zinc Phthalate As a Highly Dispersed ?-Nucleating Agent for Mechanically Strengthened Isotactic Polypropylene
Shicheng Zhao

10:15 AM

(653i) In Situ Generation of a Self-Dispersed ?-Nucleating Agent with Increased Nucleation Efficiency in Isotactic Polypropylene
Qin Wei, Shicheng Zhao, Zhong Xin