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Temperature dependence of crystal – melt coexistence for supported polyethylene filaments

Da Huang, Thorsten Hugel, Bizan N. Balzer, Günter Reiter. Nature Communications 16 (2025) 11127

The broken symmetry of molecular interactions at interfaces is causing that crystals are often covered by a thin liquid layer of their own melt. Such crystal–melt coexistence can be related to phenomena of surface premelting, secondary nucleation and melting point depression, particularly important for small systems. Here, we employed intermittent-contact mode atomic force microscopy imaging on nanoscopic semi-cylindrical filaments of polyethylene on a substrate to observe that these filaments contained a crystalline core bounded by molten regions of rather uniform width,  W_soft= (9 ± 2) nm at room temperature, which increased reversibly with temperature T. Filaments smaller than ca. 2∙W_soft (T) were completely molten. The values of W_soft (T) compared favorably with theoretically predicted characteristic length scales in the context of nucleation, surface premelting and the melting point depression of finite size crystals. Altogether, we show that these three phenomena are related and dominated by the intermolecular forces acting at crystal surfaces.


Crystallization of Layers of Strongly Adsorbed Poly(ethylene terephthalate) on Silicon Substrates

Liang Chen, Zhihang Bian, Xiaonan Li, Zhenwei Jiang, Jianquan Xu, Decai Lin, Guenter Reiter, Jichun You, Xinping Wang. Macromolecules 58 (2025) 12222–12230 

2025-rei-05.jpgWe examined the crystallization behavior of ultrathin layers of strongly adsorbed poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) chains on silicon substrates, yielding a characteristic morphology of uniquely curved dendritic polymer crystals. The observed curvature resulted from bent edge-on lamellar crystals from which terraced flat-on branched lamellar crystals grew essentially from the convex outer side. The degree of bending increased with decreasing crystallization temperature and increasing strength of polymer/substrate interactions. We propose that unbalanced stresses acting on the fold surfaces of PET lamellar crystals, probably induced by strong interactions with the substrate, were responsible for the observed curvature of the lamellar crystals. (more...)


Crystallization and Melting of Polyethylene Strongly Cross-linked in the Molten State 

Jingqing Li, Weihua Wang, Yunxiang Shi, Barbara Heck, Chuanfu Luo, Jesper de Claville Christiansen, Donghong Yu, Günter Reiter, Shichun Jiang. Soft Matter 21 (2025) 6422 

jiang2025.jpgWe examined the crystallization and melting behavior of highly cross-linked polyethylene (xPE) samples, including structural characterization of the resulting crystalline domains. Using γ-ray irradiation, cross-linking was performed in the molten state and not in the solid state. This approach assured a statistical and homogeneous distribution of the cross-link points. Upon increasing the radiation dose, the molecular weight of the strands connecting the cross-link points reached values even lower than that of the strands between physical entanglements. (more...)

 


 

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Flow-Induced Dendritic β-Form Isotactic Polypropylene Crystals in Thin Films
Bin Zhang, Binghua Wang, JiaJia Chen, Changyu Shen, Renate Reiter, Jingbo Chen, and Günter Reiter. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 5145−5151
Assembling semiconducting molecules by covalent attachment to a lamellar crystalline polymer substrate
Rainhard Machatschek, Patrick Ortmann, Renate Reiter, Stefan Mecking and Günter Reiter. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 7 (2016) 784–798
When hole extraction determines charge transfer across metal-organic-metal structure
L. V. Govor, G. Reiter and J. Parisi, EPL, 113 (2016) 57002
Influence of interfacial trap states on injecting and extracting of charges across a metal-organic interface
L.V. Govor, G. Reiter and J. Parisi. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 (2016) 135306
Continuous Fused Deposition Modelling of Architectural Envelopes Based on the Shell Formation of Molluscs: A Research Review
James H. Nebelsick, Christoph Allgaier, Benjamin Felbrich, Daniel Coupek, Renate Reiter, Günter Reiter, Achim Menges, Armin Lechler, Karl-Heinz Wurst. In book: Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction. Eds. Jan Knippers, Klaus Nickel, Thomas Speck. Springer 2016
Tunneling of charge carriers across a gold–squaraine interface
L.V. Govor, G. Reiter and J. Parisi, Physics Letters A 380 (2016) 1493–1498
Intrinsic Stresses in Thin Glassy Polymer Films Revealed by Crack Formation
Mithun Chowdhury, Xiaoyuan Sheng, Falko Ziebert, Arnold C.-M. Yang, Alessandro Sepe, Ullrich Steiner, and Günter Reiter. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 9060−9067
Revealing Order and Disorder in Films and Single Crystals of a Thiophene-Based Oligomer by Optical Spectroscopy
Sajedeh Motamen, Dominic Raithel, Richard Hildner, Khosrow Rahimi, Thibaut Jarrosson, Françoise Serein-Spirau, Laurent Simon, and Günter Reiter. ACS Photonics 3 (2016) 2315–2323
Poly(2,5-dioctylphenyl-3-thiophene) synthesized by direct arylation polycondensation: End groups, defects and crystallinity
Daniel Schiefer, Hartmut Komber, Fanuel Mugwanga Keheze, Susanna Kunz, Ralf Hanselmann, Guenter Reiter, Michael Sommer. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 7230-7237
Transient cooperative processes in dewetting polymer melts
Sivasurender Chandran, Günter Reiter, PRL 116 (2016) 088301
Crystallization and Resulting Optical Properties of Thiophene-Based Oligomers
Sajedeh Motamen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrads der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Universität Freiburg, 2016
Large area crystal surfaces of precisely sidebranched polyethylenes: Preparation, surface order and functionalization
Rainhard Machatschek. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 2016
Probing the Elasticity of Langmuir Polymer Films of High Molecular Weight Poly (γ-benzyl-L-glutamate)
Emna Khechine. Master Thesis im Studiengang M.Sc. Sustainable Materials, 2016
Self-assembled nanotubes and nanoribbons of aromatic diamide-esters
Asad Jamal. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrads der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Universität Freiburg, 2016
Formation and Optical Characterization of Single Crystals of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) (P3HT), a Model Conjugated Polymer
John O. Agumba. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrads der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Universität Freiburg, 2016
History Dependent Temporal Changes of Properties of Thin Polymer Films
Günter Reiter. In: Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter. Ed. Simone Napolitano. Springer 2015
Consequences of a Single Double Bond within a Side-Group on the Ordering of Supra-Molecular Polymers
Roozbeh Shokri, Olga Guskova, Asad Jamal, Kaiwan Jahanshahi, Benjamin Isare, Laurent Bouteiller, Laurent Simon, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Günter Reiter. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Part C 119 (2015) 22596–22603
Different surface sensing of the cell body and nucleus in healthy primary cells and in a cancerous cell line on nanogrooves
Patricia Davidson, Maxence Bigerelle, Günter Reiter and Karine Anselm. Biointerphases 10, 031004 (2015) / DOI: 10.1116/1.4927556
How Chain-Folding Crystal Growth Determines Thermodynamic Stability of Polymer Crystals
Xiaoming Jiang, Günter Reiter, Wenbing Hu. J. Phys. Chem. B, 120 (2016) 566–571
Stabilization of nuclei of lamellar polymer crystals: Insights from a comparison of the Hoffman-Weeks line with the crystallization line
Jun Xu, Barbara Heck, Hai-Mu Ye, Jing Jiang, Yi-Ren Tang, Jin Liu, Bao-Hua Guo, Renate Reiter, Dongshan Zhou, Günter Reiter. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 2206–2215
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