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Shear Induced Morphology Of Semicrystalline Block Copolymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Peter Kofinast  and
Robert E. Cohen
Peter Kofinast
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Robert E. Cohen
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Abstract

A series of semicrystalline diblock copolymers of poly (ethylene) / poly (ethylene-propylene) (E/EP) were subjected to high levels of plane strain compression using a channel die. Deformations were imposed both below and above the melting point of the E block. The crystallographic and morphological textures were examined using wide-angle x-ray diffraction pole figure analysis and two dimensional small-angle x-ray scattering. The lattice unit cell orientation of the crystallized E chains with respect to the lamellar superstructure was determined, as well as the lamellar orientation relative to the specimen boundaries. When the diblocks are textured above the E block melting point at various compression ratios, the lamellae orient perpendicular to the plane of shear, while texturing below Tm causes the lamellae to orient parallel to the plane of shear. The orientation of the crystallized E chains was perpendicular to the lamellar normal, irrespective of the texturing temperature. The various shear-induced lamellar morphologies have potential applications in gas transport control to develop membranes for use in gas separations or as barrier Materials.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 321: Symposium E – Crystallization and Related Phenomena in Amorphous Materials—Ceramics, Metals, Polymers, and Semiconductors , 1993 , 523
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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