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Crystallinity in high polymers and copolymers: A determining factor for their practical applications
Author(s) -
Natta Giulio
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.760030204
Subject(s) - crystallinity , copolymer , polymer , materials science , monomer , polymer chemistry , isomorphism (crystallography) , polymer science , chemical engineering , crystal structure , crystallography , composite material , chemistry , engineering
Abstract The relationships between crystallinity and physical and technological properties of high polymers are examined. In addition, the relationships between structure and crystallinity are discussed and polymers consisting of asymmetric monomeric units are examined in particular. In correspondence with the different possible configurational successions, different conformational characteristics (chain structures) and different physical properties are observed. Polytactic polymers are taken into consideration for the most part. With regard to copolymers, various types of crystalline polymers, in particular those which due to isomorphism of monomeric units are crystalline for any composition, and new classes of alternating copolymers are described.