PMID- 33656218
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210621
LR  - 20210621
IS  - 1521-3927 (Electronic)
IS  - 1022-1336 (Linking)
VI  - 42
IP  - 9
DP  - 2021 May
TI  - Periodic Assembly of Polyethylene Spherulites Re-Investigated by Breakthrough 
      Interior Dissection.
PG  - e2000708
LID - 10.1002/marc.202000708 [doi]
AB  - A completely novel 3D dissection approach is taken to re-investigate high-density 
      polyethylene (HDPE) crystallized into periodic architectures in a wide range of 
      T(c) . This work first discovers that ring bands present in HDPE are crystallized 
      in a quite wide T(c) range (90-120  degrees C) all within regime-III growth. With further 
      detailed analyses of the top-surface-relief patterns and 3D architectures of HDPE 
      spherulites, this work has fully clarified the periodic morphology packed with 
      alternate ways of single-crystal aggregates in correlation with the optical 
      banding patterns. The proposed assembly mechanism sheds light that the periodic 
      bands are actually composed of a cross-hatch grating structure in that the 
      alternately perpendicular orientations from the ridge to valley bands being 
      related to the interior radial to tangential lamellae. Such grating architectures 
      in the interiors of HDPE can be viewed as a mimicry resembling shish-kebab 
      lamellae self-aligned by Archimedean spiral-spins from the nucleus center.
CI  - (c) 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
FAU - Nagarajan, Selvaraj
AU  - Nagarajan S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6707-3165
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, 
      Taiwan.
FAU - Woo, Eamor M
AU  - Woo EM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3653-2549
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, 
      Taiwan.
LA  - eng
GR  - MOST 108-2221-E-006-055/Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210303
PL  - Germany
TA  - Macromol Rapid Commun
JT  - Macromolecular rapid communications
JID - 9888239
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Dissection
MH  - *Polyethylene
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - periodic assemblies
OT  - polyethylene
OT  - ring-banded spherulites
OT  - shish-kebab
OT  - spiral-spins
EDAT- 2021/03/04 06:00
MHDA- 2021/06/22 06:00
CRDT- 2021/03/03 08:55
PHST- 2021/02/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/11/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/03/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/06/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/03/03 08:55 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/marc.202000708 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Macromol Rapid Commun. 2021 May;42(9):e2000708. doi: 10.1002/marc.202000708. Epub 
      2021 Mar 3.