Polymer, Vol.43, No.25, 6887-6891, 2002
DSC studies on the melting crystallization of polyethylenes prepared from alkanes of varying molecular size
The melting crystallization behavior of narrow-disperse polyethylene sample prepared from alkane solutions was studied by using differential scanning calorimetry. Avrami analysis of isothermal crystallization of these samples indicates that the PE sample prepared from n-octadecane has significantly higher crystallization rate than that from n-octane.