formation of UHMWPE nanofibers during solid-state deformation

The deposited data contain results obtained from SEM and DSC measurements. The attached data are provided in the form of text and Excel files typical of the respective software used.The attached data were obtained using the following tests:The melting and non-isothermal crystallization of the composites were examined by employing an indium-calibrated differential scanning calorimeter DSC Q20 (TA Instruments, New Castle, DE, USA). Samples weighing 6–10 mg were heated to 180 °C, annealed for 3 min, and cooled down to crystallize, at the constant heating/cooling rate of 10 °C min−1. The morphology of in situ generated composites was investigated with a JSM-5500 LV scanning electron microscope (SEM, Jeol, Tokyo, Japan). The internal structure of the samples was exposed after a fracture in liquid nitrogen. The cryo-fracture surfaces of samples were coated with 20 nm thick gold layers by ion sputtering (JFC-1200, Jeol, Tokyo, Japan) and examined with SEM in a high vacuum mode at the accelerating voltage of 10–20 kV.