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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 92, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.075506
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We report an unusual shear-induced smectic phase of high-molecular-mass isotactic polypropylene at temperatures well above its melting point. The necessary stiffness in the polymer chain is provided by shear-induced coil-helix transitions. Coupling between the conformational ordering and the density generates the smectic layering. The periodicity of about 4 nm is built up from a rigid helical sequence of at least 11 monomers and a random-coil part of about 1.4 nm. These results also provide new clues to the question of preordering before polymer crystallization.
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