Structural development during crystallisation of synthetic polymers

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We wish to exploit the unique capability of Nimrod to move forward the long standing issue of the way in which long chain polymers crystallise. There are two key length scales: the first involves the process of forming thin (10nm) crystals from the melt, and possibility occurs via a separate phase separation process; the second is the local chain conformation (0.02nm to 1nm) this must reorganise to yield a precise symmetry commensurate with the crystalline state. The ability to obtain data over the extensive Q range simultaneously brings new possibilities to this long standing problem and eliminates ambiguities present in the alternative approaches. We will tightly couple the scattering data to computational molecular modelling procedures developed at Reading to extract quantitative parameters which describe the reorganisation of the polymer chains prior to- and during crystallisation.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079220
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079220
Provenance
Creator Dr Fred Davis; Professor Geoffrey Mitchell; Mr Robert Olley
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-12-15T09:55:58Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-12-18T09:43:08Z