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Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University volume35 issue1-2
2001-03-27 発行

Scanning Probe Microscopy of Poly(p-phenylene benzobisthiazole) Lamellar Crystal

Shimamura, Kaoru
Inoue, Tomohiro
Publication Date
2001-03-27
Abstract
Rigid polymer, poly(p-phenylene benzobisthiazole), formed lamellar crystals where the molecular chains were oriented perpendicular to the lamellae. It was supposed that, because of wide distribution in the chain length, the lamellar surface bristled with the chain cilia among which many voids were included. Crystallographically, this region afforded us a transitional structure from full to deficient packings of chains. The structure was analyzed using the scanning probe microscope. In the course the method for imaging one molecular chain end was developed. From the images it was concluded that an isolated long cilius did not move so violently at room temperature.
ISSN
0475-0071
NCID
AA10699856
NAID