The role of mesophases in the ordering of polymers
| Autor: | José M. Gómez-Elvira, María L. Cerrada, Ernesto Pérez, Delia López-Velázquez, Juan Carlos Martínez, Aránzazu Martínez-Gómez, Alberto García-Peñas, Juan P. Fernández-Blázquez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science Polymers and Plastics Organic Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy Mesophase 02 engineering and technology Crystal structure Polymer 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Amorphous solid law.invention Crystallography chemistry law Tacticity Phase (matter) Materials Chemistry Crystallization 0210 nano-technology Monoclinic crystal system |
| Zdroj: | European Polymer Journal. 81:661-673 |
| ISSN: | 0014-3057 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2016.03.010 |
| Popis: | The role played by mesophases in the ordering of polymers, namely if they are either competitors with the more stable crystal structures, or they act as precursors of subsequent crystallization, has been analyzed in two kinds of systems: (a) isotactic polypropylene and copolymers with 1-pentene, as representative of forming solid mesophases, and (b) liquid crystalline polymers with biphenyl mesogens (polybibenzoates and esters of hydroxypropylcellulose with different acids including the biphenyl group). Variable-temperature synchrotron experiments have been the primary tool in order to evaluate the formation and stability of those mesophases as function of composition, chemical structure and crystallization conditions (mainly the cooling rate). The results show, in the first case, that the mesophase forming rate depends strongly on comonomer content, and that these solid mesophases are really competitors with the 3D phases. Additionally, a rather complicated polymorphic behavior is exhibited by the 1-pentene copolymers at intermediate contents, where the mesophase is a competitor with both trigonal and monoclinic crystals. On the contrary, in the case of liquid crystalline mesophases these are precursors of the eventual subsequent crystallization. Moreover, correlation lengths and phase behavior in hydroxypropylcellulose esters were found to depend strongly on the degree of substitution, in such a way that differentiation between the mesophase and the isotropic amorphous profile becomes increasingly difficult. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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