ISSN:
0449-2978
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
An x-ray diffraction method for the simultaneous determination of crystallinity (including intracrystalline defects), effective Debye-Waller factors, and atomic positions has been developed and applied to semicrystalline polyethylene. It was found that this material unambiguously constitutes a two-phase system. Measurements of intracrystalline lattice disorder in the chain direction and perpendicular to the chain direction show these to be in the ratio 1:2.5. Lattice disorder was principally of the first kind. Paracrystalline disorder in the [110] direction was less than 2.4% at all experimental conditions. Results include measurements of degree of crystallinity, particle size, space group, and unit cell parameters and variation of these quantities with crystallization temperature, ambient temperature, and time.
Additional Material:
13 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1970.160080205
