Intramolecular and Intermolecular Packing in Polymer
Crystallization
Posted on 2019-06-07 - 21:29
Recently, the chain-folding structure
of 13C-labeled
poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) with different molecular weights
(M) of 46K (small, s), 90K (middle, m), and 320K g/mol (large, l) in the solution-grown
crystals [Macromolecules2018, 51, 8729–8737] was studied by solid-state nuclear
magnetic resonance (ssNMR). In this work, the chain-folding and packing
structures, long period, and morphology of 13C-labeled s-, m-, and l-PLLA in
the melt-grown crystals crystallized at Tc = 90 and 150 °C are investigated by ssNMR, small-angle X-ray
scattering (SAXS), wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), and polarized
optical microscopy (POM), respectively. All the s-, m-, and l-PLLA adopt thermodynamically stable α
crystals and large spherulites with a diameter of ∼2 mm at Tc = 150 °C. A large supercooling induces
kinetically favored disordered α′ crystals and nodular
structures for all three samples. By comparing the experimental 13C–13C double quantum (DQ) buildup data
with the simulated ones, we found that all three PLLA samples with
different Mws adopt adjacent re-entry
structure with the same mean value of successive adjacent re-entry
number, n, of 1.5–2 in both α and α′
crystals under the assumption of full adjacent re-entry, F = 100%. Through systematic studies on the chain-folding structure
as functions of Tc and Mw, it is concluded that the chain-folding process is a
local event and is independent of the overall crystallization process.
On the basis of the chain-folding and packing structures in both solution-
and melt-grown crystals, contributions of the intramolecular and intermolecular
packing to the order–disorder phenomenon of the overall packing
structure will be discussed.
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Wang, Shijun; Yuan, Shichen; Wang, Kun; Chen, Wei; Yamada, Koji; Barkley, Deborah; et al. (2019). Intramolecular and Intermolecular Packing in Polymer
Crystallization. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00702