1 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies
2 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies Semi-Crystalline Helical Structure Chain Folding Semi-Crystalline Fibrillar Growth Spherulitic, shish-kabob, epitaxial surface nucleation, Crystalline Orientation Lamellar Orientation Macroscopic Orientation
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9 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies Paul Phillips 1990 Review
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11 Paul Phillips 1990 Review Rigid, semi-Rigid, Flexible Polymer Chains On melting the entropy gain is small because the crystallizing units are chemically bound. The random coil state is seen classically as the highest entropy state. For rigid polymers the ground state may be a lower entropy state. Kevlar Polythiophene
12 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies Paul Phillips 1990 Review Tacticity Tacticity governs the helical structure
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18 Chain Folding and Crystallization
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21 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies n-alkane boiling and melting points “n” Boiling (top) or Melting (bottom) Point
22 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies “Crystals act like crosslinks in rubber” P. Phillips 1990
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30 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies Solution Crystallization
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33 Why do Chains Fold? For an infinite crystal V/S is very large and we can ignore the surface At the equilibrium melting point ΔG = 0 so: substituting in the first equation,
34 Why do Chains Fold? For a lamellar crystal S is 2R 2 and V is tR 2 At a pseudo-equilibrium point where the crystal has a finite thickness of t and a depressed melting point, T
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36 Hoffman-Weeks Plot
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42 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies
43 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies Diffusion of impurities versus growth rate of crystallization front J = -D dc/dx for flux of impurities G = linear growth rate of crystal D/G = δ, the Keith-Padden δ-parameter This determines the coarseness of the spherulite (lateral size)
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45 Hoffman-Lauritzen Secondary Nucleation Theory
46 Hoffman-Lauritzen Secondary Nucleation Theory
47 Hoffman-Lauritzen Secondary Nucleation Theory Add a first stem, then subsequent stems. First stem and subsequent stems add 2b 0 σl and b 0 σl To the free energy (cost to make a surface)
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58 Hoffman-Lauritzen Secondary Nucleation Theory
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64 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies
65 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies Non Crystallographic Branching
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67 Semi-Crystalline Polymer Morphologies and their Hierarchical Morphologies
68 Spherulitic Growth Rate
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