Perpendicular orientation of host polymer chains in clathrate thick films
Perpendicular orientation of host polymer chains in clathrate thick films
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笼形厚膜中主体聚合物链的垂直取向
DOI:
10.1021/ma035698q
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发表时间:
2004
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
G. Guerra
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作者:
Paola Rizzo;A. Costabile;G. Guerra
Orientation is a phenomenon of great technical and theoretical importance for nearly all materials. In fact, many examples could be quoted to illustrate how orientation affects the properties of solids. 1 For polymeric materials, the effects of orientation on properties, although formally similar to those on other materials, are more relevant. For instance, for polymers, the extent to which it is possible to increase stiffness, and more particularly strength, and the ease with which this can be done find no parallel with other materials. Orientation is particularly relevant for functional polymeric materials, like, for instance, polymers presenting ferroelectric or conductive2 or nonlinear optical3 properties. Of course, when the functionality is due to the crystalline phase, the control of the orientation of the crystalline phase is particularly relevant. Different kinds of crystalline phase orientations, which present the chain axes (generally corresponding to the crystallographic c axis) parallel to the film plane, 4 can easily be achieved for semicrystalline polymeric films of industrially relevant thickness (1-100 µm), for instance by deformation in the solid state of initially unoriented systems.The crystalline phase orientation for which the chain axes are perpendicular to the film plane, although generally achieved for solution grown polymeric single crystals lamellae (with a typical thickness of tenths of nanometers) as well as for single-crystal mats, 5 is on the contrary not available for films of industrially relevant thicknesses.