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National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Film, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
jfsheng@ustc.edu.cn (J.F.S.)
lbli@ustc.edu.cn (L.B.L.)
Received:07 April 2022,
Revised:2022-4-21,
Accepted:25 April 2022,
Online First:20 July 2022,
Published:01 December 2022
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Peng, F.; Nie, C; Xu, T. Y.; Sheng, J. F.; Chen, W.; Yu, W. C.; Li, L. B. Entanglement on nucleation barrier of polymer crystal. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 1640–1650
Fan Peng, Cui Nie, Ting-Yu Xu, et al. Entanglement on Nucleation Barrier of Polymer Crystal[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(12): 1640-1650.
Peng, F.; Nie, C; Xu, T. Y.; Sheng, J. F.; Chen, W.; Yu, W. C.; Li, L. B. Entanglement on nucleation barrier of polymer crystal. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 1640–1650 DOI: 10.1007/s10118-022-2780-7.
Fan Peng, Cui Nie, Ting-Yu Xu, et al. Entanglement on Nucleation Barrier of Polymer Crystal[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(12): 1640-1650. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-022-2780-7.
A detailed study of the nucleation in melts with different entanglements is performed using MD simulation. Then we propose a theoretical approach to quantitatively account for the role of entanglement in the nucleation of polymer melts.
We propose a theoretical approach to quantitatively account for the role of entanglement in the nucleation of polymer melts
which is the unique feature of polymer differentiated from small molecules. By performing molecular dynamics simulations
we obtain the nucleation barriers of polymer systems with different entanglement densities
which exhibits an opposite trend compared to the prediction of the classic nucleation theory (CNT). To amend the deficiency of the CNT in polymer crystallization
we introduce the entanglement free energy to reflect the role of entanglement in polymer nucleation. Specifically
the polymer nucleation not only involves free energies of monomers inside and on the surface of a nucleus as considered in the CNT
but also affects the entanglement network around the nucleus. Our theoretical approach provides a reasonable interpretation for the unsolved nucleation phenomena of polymers in simulations and experiments.
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