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Correlation between primary chemical structure and property phenomena in polycondensates
Author(s) -
Sommer Klaus
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.19910031204
Subject(s) - materials science , amorphous solid , polymer , context (archaeology) , characterization (materials science) , monte carlo method , polymer science , monomer , lattice (music) , statistical physics , property (philosophy) , chemical physics , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , composite material , chemistry , mathematics , physics , paleontology , philosophy , statistics , epistemology , acoustics , biology
Polycondensates (polycarbonates (PC), polyetherketones (PEK), and polyethersulfones (PES) in the present context) have an important share of the market for engineering and high‐performance thermoplastics. A knowledge of the relationships between the chemical structures of monomers and the properties of the polymers is an important prerequisite for the development of new plastics and the improvement of existing ones. These relationships can be investigated through the characterization of systematically varied polycondensate structures, and by the application of theoretical simulation methods developed to provide a better understanding of the propertydetermining structural elements and for the prediction of polymer characteristics. This article presents results relating to structure–property correlations (including various experimental results), static simulations of the amorphous polymer solid (“amorphous cell”) type, and dynamic Monte Carlo lattice simulations using the bond fluctuation algorithm.