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. 2020 Aug 28;11:4354. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18216-y

Fig. 5. Adsorption/desorption vs. crystallization/melting.

Fig. 5

In the schematics, adsorbed and crystallized chains are given in tones of green, whereas other chains are in tones of blue. Increasing the temperature of an interfacial polymer layer induces a phase transition related to a sudden reduction in the number of macromolecules adsorbed per unit surface. This process has a high affinity with the melting of a polymer crystal.