Fig 1

(a) The temperature dependence of diffusion activation energy barrier and nucleation free energy barrier; (b) The temperature dependence of overall crystallization kinetics."

Fig 2

Schematic diagram of the sensor of chip calorimetry fabricated by Allen's group. Reproduced with permission from Rev. Sci. Instrum., American Institute of Physics 20."

Fig 3

Photographs of flash DSC(top left), locating position of sensor (top right), sample transfer(bottom left) and membrane of sample cells on sensor (bottom right). Reproduced with permission from METTLER TOLEDO Company."

Fig 4

Melting curves of crystallization on cooling of Nylon-6 (PA) after various erasing history temperatures. Reproduced with permission from Macromol. Chem. Phys., Wiley 42.PA were heatedat 6000 K∙s−1 after cooling at −40 K∙s−1 from a stay of 0.2 s at various high temperatures between 180 and 250 ℃. "

Fig 5

Cooling curves of iPP with different rates. Reproduced with permission from J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., SpringerLink 36. The dashed lines are guiding the eyes for the observed transitions. "

Fig 6

Heating curves of iPP with various rates. Reproduced with permission from J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., Springer Link 36. iPP were heated at rates between 5000 and 30000 K∙s−1 after cooling at 4000 K•s−1. The dashed lines indicate cold crystallization on heating."

Fig 7

Isothermal crystallization kinetic curves at low and high supercooling of MT12-s, MT18-s, V30G. Reproduced with permission from J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., Springer Link 36."

Fig 8

Temperature dependence of half-crystallization times of PA and PK during isothermal crystallization process. Reproduced with permission from Macromol. Chem. Phys., Wiley 42."

Fig 9

(a) Cold-crystallization enthalpy of L-PCL as a function of logarithmic time at −40 ℃; (b) nucleation half-time as a function of isothermal temperatures for C-PCL and L-PCL. Reproduced with permission from polymer, Elsevier 38."

Fig 10

(a) Heating curves of annealed iPB-1; (b) enthalpy of relaxation and enthalpy of cold-crystallization as a function ofthe time of annealing the glass (right). Reprinted with permission from Ref. 73. Copyright (2013)American Chemistry Society.Apparent heat capacity of iPB-1 as a function of temperature, measuredon heating at 1000 K∙s−1 after annealing initiallyglassy samples for different time between0 s (bold black curves) and 10000 s (bold blue curves) at 243 K. Enthalpy of relaxation (upper data sets, triangles)and enthalpy of cold-crystallization(lower data sets, squares) as a function of the time of annealing the glass (right)."

Fig 11

POM morphology of PLLA crystallized at 120 ℃ for 10 min after annealing at low temperature with different condition. Reproduced with permission from Macromol. Chem. Phys., Wiley 81. The melt annealed at low temperature ranging from 50 to 70 ℃ (left to right column) for staying time between 2 and 1000 min (top to bottom row). The temperature program of FSC at bottom left shows Tammann's nuclei development method. The scaling bar corresponds a distance of 100 µm."

Fig 12

(a) Melting curves of PLLA crystals after annealed at 152 ℃ for various periods. AFM height images of the nascent crystals (b) and their morphologies annealed at 152 ℃ for 1000 s (c). Reproduced with permission from polymer, Elsevier80. The semi-crystalline samples were prepared isothermally crystallized at 90 ℃ for 600 s."