Chain Trajectory of Semicrystalline Polymers As Revealed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (original) (raw)
Over the last half century, a chain-folding structure of semicrystalline polymers has been debated in polymer science. Recently, 13 C− 13 C double quantum (DQ) NMR spectroscopy combined with 13 C selective isotope labeling has been developed to investigate re-entrance sites of the folded chains, mean values of adjacent re-entry number ⟨n⟩ and fraction ⟨F⟩ of semicrystalline polymers. This viewpoint highlights the versatile approaches of using solid-state (ss) NMR and isotope labeling for revealing (i) chain trajectory in melt-and solution-grown crystals, (ii) conformation of the folded chains in single crystals, (iii) self-folding in the early stage of crystallization, and (iv) unfolding of the folded chains under stretching.
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