| Flexible polymers are featured with two-dimensional growth of metastable chain-folded lamellar crystals in quiescent dilute solutions. Recently, a massive cylindrical micelle with quasi-one-dimensional growth driven by confined crystallization of di-block copolymers in dilute solutions raised a new challenge. The crystal growth in polymer dilute solution was studied via Dynamical Monte Carlo simulation. The ki-netics of quasi-one-dimensional growth of homo-polymer lamella was investigated in detail. The intra-molecular nucleation mechanism was proven to be dominant in the growth process. The dependence of the growth rate on various conditions was studied, and a theoretical model for the data analysis of corresponding experimental obser-vation was provided. Preliminary results of the simulation on crystallization-driven self-assembly of the diblock copolymer in dilute solution were obtained. |
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