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Structural study of syndiotactic polystyrene: 1. Polymorphism
- Source :
- Polymer. 33:488-492
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1992.
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Abstract
- The features of the crystallization of syndiotactic polystyrene were investigated by X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, thermogravimetry and density measurements. This polymer exhibits polymorphism: there are principally four distinct crystalline phases. Melt-crystallization yields a planar zigzag form. As-cast samples from solutions with a variety of solvents are molecular compounds with the solvents used, in which the polymer chains assume a twofold helical conformation of type ( TTGG ) 2 . On annealing the molecular compounds at moderate temperatures below ∼130°C, they are transformed in common, by removal of the solvent molecules, to a ( TTGG ) 2 twofold helical form free from solvents. On annealing at higher temperatures, the helical form is transformed to a planar zigzag form, which is distinguished from the melt-crystallized planar zigzag form in terms of the mode of molecular arrangement.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules
Materials science
Polymers and Plastics
Organic Chemistry
Polymer
law.invention
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter
Thermogravimetry
chemistry.chemical_compound
Crystallography
chemistry
Polymorphism (materials science)
Zigzag
law
Tacticity
Polymer chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Molecule
Polystyrene
Crystallization
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00323861
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Polymer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b47a2b880483bf9cae8f7430550880c7