Structure and formation of noninteger and integer folded-chain crystals of linear and branched monodisperse ethylene oligomers

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1875-1879

  Ungar, Goran ^a   Zeng, Xiangbing ^a   Brooke, Gerald M ^b   Mohammed, Shahid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYETHYLENES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

INTEGER FOLDED CRYSTALS; NONINTEGER FOLDED CRYSTALS;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 0032026911     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma971539t     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. For a review see: Buckley, C. P.; Kovacs, A. J. In Structure of Crystalline Polymers; Hall, I. H., Ed.; Elsevier Applied Science Publishers: London, 1984; p 261.
2. Bidd, I.; Whiting, M. C. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1985, 543.
3. Lee, K.-S.; Wegner, G. Makromol. Chem., Rapid Commun. 1985, 6, 203.
4. Ungar, G.; Stejny, J.; Keller, A.; Bidd, I.; Whiting, M. C. Science 1985, 229, 386.
5. Ungar, G. S. J.; Organ, S. J.; Keller, A. J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed. 1988, 26, 259.
6. Ungar, G.; Keller, A. Polymer 1986, 27, 1835.
7. Cheng, S. Z. D.; Zhang, A.; Chen, J.; Heberer, D. P. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 1991, 29, 287; Cheng, S. Z. D.; Chen, J. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 1991, 29, 311.
8. Cheng, S. Z. D.; Zhang, A.; Chen, J.; Heberer, D. P. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 1991, 29, 287; Cheng, S. Z. D.; Chen, J. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 1991, 29, 311.
9. Brooke, G. M.; Burnett, S.; Mohammed, S.; Proctor D.; Whiting, M. C. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 1996, 1635.
10. Zeng, X.; Ungar, G. Polymer 1998, in press.
11. Ungar G.; Keller A. Polymer 1987, 28, 1899.
12. Ungar, G. In Integration of Fundamental Polymer Science and Technology: Lemstra, P. J., Kleintjens, I. A., Eds.; Elsevier: London, 1988; Vol. 2, p 346.
13. Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.; Boda, E., to be published.
14. Kim, I.; Krimm, S. Macromolecules 1996, 29, 7186.
15. By rapid melt quenching it is however possible to temporarily freeze some NIF form at room temperature.