John I. Lauritzen

4.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
18 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

John I. Lauritzen is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, John I. Lauritzen has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. Recurrent topics in John I. Lauritzen's work include Polymer crystallization and properties (10 papers), Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (6 papers) and Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions (2 papers). John I. Lauritzen is often cited by papers focused on Polymer crystallization and properties (10 papers), Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (6 papers) and Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions (2 papers). John I. Lauritzen collaborates with scholars based in United States. John I. Lauritzen's co-authors include John Hoffman, Lois J. Frolen, Gaylon S. Ross, Eliο Passaglia, Eugene Helfand, Robert Zwanzig, Edmund A. DiMarzio, James J. Weeks and Graham Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Applied Physics and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

John I. Lauritzen

18 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Theory of formation of polymer crystals with folded chain... 1960 2026 1982 2004 1960 1973 1961 1975 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Theory of formation of polymer crystals with folded chains in dilute solution
    1960 671 citations John I. Lauritzen, John Hoffman Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry profile →
  2. Extension of theory of growth of chain-folded polymer crystals to large undercoolings
    1973 578 citations John I. Lauritzen, John Hoffman Journal of Applied Physics profile →
  3. Crystallization of bulk polymers with chain folding: theory of growth of lamellar spherulites
    1961 556 citations John Hoffman, John I. Lauritzen Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry profile →
  4. On the growth rate of spherulites and axialites from the melt in polyethylene fractions: Regime I and regime II crystallization
    1975 405 citations John Hoffman, Lois J. Frolen et al. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry profile →

Peers

John I. Lauritzen
James J. Weeks United States
Robert L. Miller United States
C. G. Vonk Netherlands
P. H. Lindenmeyer United States
Karl‐Heinz Illers Germany
Akihiko Toda Japan
D. Heikens Netherlands
Thein Kyu United States
A. Boller United States
A. R. Shultz United States
James J. Weeks United States
John I. Lauritzen
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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Lauritzen, John I. & Edmund A. DiMarzio. (1978). The configurational statistics of a polymer confined to a wedge of interior angle alpha. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. 83(4). 381–381. 12 indexed citations
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Hoffman, John, Lois J. Frolen, Gaylon S. Ross, & John I. Lauritzen. (1975). On the growth rate of spherulites and axialites from the melt in polyethylene fractions: Regime I and regime II crystallization. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry. 79A(6). 671–671. 405 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lauritzen, John I.. (1973). Effect of a finite substrate length upon polymer crystal lamellar growth rate. Journal of Applied Physics. 44(10). 4353–4359. 144 indexed citations
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Helfand, Eugene & John I. Lauritzen. (1973). Theory of Copolymer Crystallization. Macromolecules. 6(4). 631–638. 120 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I. & John Hoffman. (1973). Extension of theory of growth of chain-folded polymer crystals to large undercoolings. Journal of Applied Physics. 44(10). 4340–4352. 578 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lauritzen, John I. & Robert Zwanzig. (1973). Dielectric relaxation of a single axis rotator with two equivalent sites. 5(4). 339–361. 21 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I. & Robert Zwanzig. (1970). Exact Calculation of the Partition Function for a Generalized Model of Two-Dimensional Polymer Crystallization by Chain Folding. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 52(7). 3740–3751. 27 indexed citations
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Hoffman, John, John I. Lauritzen, Eliο Passaglia, et al.. (1969). Kinetics of polymer crystallization from solution and the melt. Kolloid-Zeitschrift & Zeitschrift für Polymere. 231(1-2). 564–592. 134 indexed citations
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Zwanzig, Robert & John I. Lauritzen. (1968). Exact Calculation of the Partition Function for a Model of Two-Dimensional Polymer Crystallization by Chain Folding. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 48(8). 3351–3360. 51 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I. & Eliο Passaglia. (1967). Kinetics of crystallization in multicomponent systems. II. Chain-folded polymer crystals. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry. 71A(4). 261–261. 99 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I., Eliο Passaglia, & Edmund A. DiMarzio. (1967). Kinetics of crystallization in multicomponent systems: I. Binary mixtures of n-paraffins. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry. 71A(4). 245–245. 20 indexed citations
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Williams, Graham, John I. Lauritzen, & John Hoffman. (1967). Effect of Chain Twisting on the Effective Barrier to Reorientation for a Hindered Rotator. Journal of Applied Physics. 38(11). 4203–4208. 14 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I., Edmund A. DiMarzio, & Eliο Passaglia. (1966). Kinetics of Growth of Multicomponent Chains. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 45(12). 4444–4454. 35 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I.. (1963). The effective area of a guarded electrode. 67–70. 5 indexed citations
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Hoffman, John & John I. Lauritzen. (1961). Crystallization of bulk polymers with chain folding: theory of growth of lamellar spherulites. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry. 65A(4). 297–297. 556 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lauritzen, John I. & John Hoffman. (1960). Theory of formation of polymer crystals with folded chains in dilute solution. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section A Physics and Chemistry. 64A(1). 73–73. 671 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lauritzen, John I. & John Hoffman. (1959). Formation of Polymer Crystals with Folded Chains from Dilute Solution. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 31(6). 1680–1681. 104 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, John I.. (1958). Analysis of Dielectric Loss in Two Urea Addition Compounds : The Hindered Single Axis Polar Rotator. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 28(1). 118–131. 38 indexed citations

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