Crystallized Polymers  

 - Edited by Young-Ho Kim   

          Single Lamellas

          Multilamella Structures

          Dendrites

          Hedrites

          Spherulites

          Fibrous Structures

          Epitaxial Crystallization

          Defects

  The crystallization of flexible chain polymers can be carried out by supercooling a solution or a melt in which, initially, the chain units are either randomly arranged (isotropic fluid) or partially ordered (liquid crystalline mesophase).

1. Faceted single lamellas containing folded or extended chains,

2. Nonfaceted lamellas,

3. Branched (dendritic) structures,

4. Sheaf-like arrays of lamellar ribbons (axialites, hedrites),

5. Spherulitic arrays of lamellar ribbons (spherulites),

6. Fibrous structures,

7. Epitaxial lamellar overgrowths on microfibrils.