July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
12h 52m
English
Morphology of polymers refers to the order within macromolecular solids and the structural constitution on the levels from nanoscale to a submicron and micron scale.
The study of the morphology of polymers started over a century ago; it became a field of study in its own right with the advent of commercial transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) some 60 years ago.
Polymer molecules arrange in no order (amorphous) or in an orderly pattern (both orientational and positional ordered) (crystalline) (Figure 112.1). Semi-crystalline is a more realistic description for crystalline polymers since they are very seldom 100% ordered.
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