Adv Polym Sci (2005) 191: 1–35 DOI 10.1007/12_011 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 Published online: 5 October 2005 Polymer Crystallization Driven by Anisotropic Interactions Wenbing Hu1 (u) · Daan Frenkel2 1 Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of Coordination Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210093 Nanjing, P.R. China
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[email protected] 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lattice Model for Polymer Crystallization . . . . . . . Flory’s Treatment for Semiflexible Polymers . . . . . . Implications of Parallel Attractions in Polymer Systems Mean-Field Treatment of Parallel Attractions . . . . . . Predictions of the Polymer Melting Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 5 6 7 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 Interplay of Polymer Crystallization and Liquid–Liquid Demixing Thermodynamic Interplay in Polymer Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . Kinetic Interplay in Polymer Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thermodynamic Interplay of Crystallization and Mixing in Polymer Blends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 13 . . . . 16 Some Applications of Parallel Attractions in Molecular Simulations Characteristic Morphologies of Polymer Crystallites . . . . . . . . . Crystallization and Melting of Statistical Copolymers . . . . . . . . Free-Energy Barrier for M