- Pressure-induced structural change of intermediate-range order in poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) melt.
Pressure-induced structural change of intermediate-range order in poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) melt.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (2012-04-03)
Ayano Chiba, Nobumasa Funamori, Kazuya Nakayama, Yasuo Ohishi, Stephen M Bennington, Sanjay Rastogi, Anuj Shukla, Kazuhiko Tsuji, Mikihito Takenaka
PMID22463236
초록
High-pressure in situ x-ray diffraction and specific-volume measurements on isotactic poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) melt have uncovered abrupt changes in the pressure dependence of microscopic structure as well as that of macroscopic density. The first sharp diffraction peak of the polymer melt, which is related to the intermediate-range order and is explained as resulting from the correlations between main chains, is suppressed at pressures less than 1 kbar. These changes in intermediate-range order show similarities to those seen in liquid-liquid or amorphous-amorphous transitions in simpler small molecule based systems, suggesting that this kind of phenomenon may occur in a wide range of materials.
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