Multiscale studies of crystallisation in synthetic polymers

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We wish to exploit the unique capability of Nimrod to move forward the long standing issue of the way in which long chain polymers crystallise. For synthetic polymers there are two key length scales: the first involves the thin (10nm) lamellar crystal and the second is the regular local chain conformation (0.02nm - 1nm). The ability to obtain scattering data over an extensive Q range simultaneously brings new possibilities to this long standing problem and eliminates ambiguities present in the alternative approaches. We will use neutron scattering to follow the transformation pathways of these two length scales. We will tightly couple the scattering data to computational molecular modelling procedures developed at Reading to extract quantitative parameters which describe the reorganisation of the polymer chains prior to- and during crystallisation over these two length scales.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079717
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079717
Provenance
Creator Professor Geoffrey Mitchell; Dr Daniel Lopez Garcia; Dr Fred Davis; Mr Robert Olley
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-05-17T16:46:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-05-21T08:41:32Z