Lamellar thickness and stretching temperature dependency of cavitation in semicrystalline polymers.

Polybutene-1 (PB-1), a typical semicrystalline polymer, in its stable form I shows a peculiar temperature dependent strain-whitening behavior when being stretched at temperatures in between room temperature and melting temperature of the crystallites where the extent of strain-whitening weakens with...

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Main Authors: Yaotao Wang, Zhiyong Jiang, Lianlian Fu, Ying Lu, Yongfeng Men
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4018252?pdf=render