Abstract
This chapter reviews key effects of comonomer incorporation on the solid‐state morphology and crystallization kinetics in both statistical and block copolymers. It explains compositionally homogeneous statistical copolymers while discussing statistical copolymer crystallization. In semicrystalline block copolymers, the crystallization behavior are often more complex than that observed in statistical copolymers because the solid‐state morphology adopted by block copolymers can be driven either by block incompatibility or by crystallization of one or more blocks. The chapter covers only block copolymers with homogeneous or weakly segregated melts such that crystallization is always the dominant factor in determining solid‐state morphology. The presence of order in the melt, even if the segregation strength is weak, hinders the development of the equilibrium spacing in the block copolymer solid‐state structure.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Handbook of Polymer Crystallization |
Publisher | wiley |
Pages | 327-346 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118541838 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780470380239 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 9 2013 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Engineering
- General Chemical Engineering
- General Materials Science
- General Physics and Astronomy
Keywords
- Block copolymers
- Crystallization
- Homogeneous segregated melt
- Statistical copolymers
- Weakly segregated melts