Structural changes in a tetrafluorethylene-ethylene copolymer in γ-radiation

Autor: L.G. Kazaryan, I.M. Abramova, V.I. Serenkov, V.S. Tikhomirov, N.I. Bol'shakova
Rok vydání: 1975
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Zdroj: Polymer Science U.S.S.R.. 17:2693-2698
ISSN: 0032-3950
DOI: 10.1016/0032-3950(75)90072-6
Popis: Results are described of X-ray and electron microscope studies of structural changes in a tetrafluorethylene-ethylene copolymer under the effect of γ-radiation, according to the dose and temperature of irradiation. It was found that in a copolymer irradiated at 150 and 250° crystallite dimensions increase irreversibly, whereas heating without irradiation is accompanied by a reversible increase. An irreversible increase in the dimensions of crystallites is apparently due to processes of crosslinking in the copolymer in γ-radiation which result in fixing the structure organized at high temperature, i.e. in radiation annealing.
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