@article{Lamberti2011b,

title = {Isotactic polypropylene crystallization: Analysis and modeling},

author = { Gaetano Lamberti},

url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014305711000589},

doi = {10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2011.02.005},

issn = {00143057},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-05-01},

journal = {European Polymer Journal},

volume = {47},

number = {5},

pages = {1097--1112},

abstract = {The relevance of crystallization phenomena during the processing of semi-crystalline polymers is well known. Despite the huge investigation work done in the field, a full description of the crystallization kinetics under non-isothermal conditions still lacks. In this work, a commercial semi-crystalline polymer, an isotactic polypropylene, was studied in term of isothermal crystallization and of crystallization during cooling in a large range of cooling rate. The entire experimental behavior \textendash solidification at high cooling rates, alpha-phase crystallization kinetics at intermediate cooling rates, and secondary crystallization at low cooling rates \textendash was carefully quantified. Finally, a model able to reproduce all the observed features was proposed and tuned, to build a tool useful for the transformation processes simulation codes.},

keywords = {Crystallization kinetics, iPP, Modeling, Non-isothermal},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}