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MATERIALS TODAY
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 26-37Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2020.05.003
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [2018K1A3A1A32053991, 2012R1A6A1029029]
- Samsung Research Funding Center of Samsung Electronics [SRFC-MA1401-05]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2018K1A3A1A32053991] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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It has been believed that stereo-irregular polymers hardly form crystalline structure because of the deficient ordering along the backbone direction. Here we show the crystallization of atactic polymers by rapid thermal quenching of polymers co-melted with a chain-stretching agent. To this end, crystalline PMMAs (hc-PMMAs) are prepared from stereo-irregular atactic-PMMAs (M-n = 35-1500 kg/mol) as well as stereo-regular isotacticand syndiotactic-PMMAs by rapid quenching of molten PMMA/benzoic acid (BA) solutions. BA acts as a chain-stretching agent. PMMA chains are elongated up to 60% of their contour length when they are co-melted with BA. The preferential hydrogen bonding between PMMA and BA compensates the conformational entropy loss of PMMA chains in molten PMMA/BA solutions. Upon quenching, PMMA chains are further stretched because of the large tensile stress induced by the sudden temperature drop and because of mechanical squeezing by concomitant directional crystallization of anisotropic lath-like BA crystals. After sublimation of BA, the PMMA shows a clear melting transition: T-m = 276-283 degrees C for hc-s-PMMA and 293-306 degrees C for hc-a-PMMA. Unlike other conventional crystals having 3D crystallinity, hc-PMMAs exhibits 1D crystallinity due to ordered lateral packing between chains (d = similar to 4.3 angstrom) which is independent on the tacticity while the packing is amorphous-like for the other two directions. For the reason of the reduced dimensionality in crystallinity, we named the crystalline PMMA as 1D hypo-crystalline PMMA (hc-PMMA). Because of their high 1D crystallinity (55-65%), hc-PMMAs exhibit the storage modulus (E0) enhanced by 20 times comparing with those of pristine PMMA.
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