In recent years

fast-scan chip-calorimeter (FSC)

as a new development from conventional differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)

has gave an impetus to the progress in the field of polymer crystallization and melting.As the first user in this field of China

we made a survey on the recent progress of the issue.We first introduced the history of commercial FSC

followed with its measurement techniques on polymer semi-crystalline samples.We then provided several examples on the applications of this technique in the study of polymer crystallization and melting behaviors

including overall crystallization kinetics

crystal nucleation kinetics

the effects of nucleation agents

fillers and comonomers on crystallization

the identification of multiple melting peaks

the irreversible and reversible melting of chain-folded lamellar crystals

and the melting of macromolecules with strong intermolecular interactions.The great expansion of temperature-scanning rates in Flash DSC could match to either industrial processing or molecular simulation

and thus provide rich information of combinational approaches on polymer crystallization

annealing and melting behaviors for our better understanding.We hope that this survey can help the readers on reading the literatures related to FSC or on considering this technique as a useful tool in solving the problems related to polymer crystallization and melting

or similar behaviors of other materials.