Morphology of Semicrystalline Polymers: Concepts, Analytical methods and Structure-Property Relationships
摘要
Crystalline polymers have a fully or partially regular chain structure and the regular parts may crystallize to some extent. The crystalline stems adapt to a specific preferred conformation, the low energy conformation (cf. Chapter 2 ). The presence of chain defects, e.g. atactic sequences, chain branches or different repeating units at high concentrations, makes it impossible for a polymer to crystallize and a glassy structure is formed on cooling.