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Crystallization of Statistical Copolymers

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Conventional polymers contain various chemical, geometrical, and stereo-optical sequence irregularities along the backbone chain, which can be treated as noncrystallizable comonomers in statistical copolymers. For statistical copolymers, the link between chemistry (copolymerization to characterize statistical copolymers) and physics (crystallization to determine structures and properties) has recently been enhanced. This review discusses how the crystallization behavior and resulting semicrystalline structure of statistical copolymers are affected by the various microstructure parameters of their comonomers, such as content, distribution along or even among polymer chains, and size (determining their inclusion in or exclusion from the crystallites). The discussion of crystallization is focused on its interplay with component segregation at three different length scales: monomer, monomer sequence, and macromolecule. The first two mainly occur in homogeneous copolymers, whereas the last one is only operative for heterogeneous copolymers. In addition, some unique phenomena such as strong memory effects and (cross)fractionation are discussed briefly.

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Acknowledgement

We appreciated the helpful discussion with Professor Alejandro J. Müller at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain. Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 21274061 and 21474050) and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University is appreciated. RGA acknowledges funding from the USA National Science Foundation under grant No. DMR1105129.

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    Wenbing Hu & Huanhuan Gao

  2. SciTe B.V., Ridder Vosstraat 6, 6162 AX, Geleen, The Netherlands

    Vincent B. F. Mathot

  3. Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer St., Tallahassee, FL, 32310-6046, USA

    Rufina G. Alamo & Xuejian Chen

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Hu, W., Mathot, V.B.F., Alamo, R.G., Gao, H., Chen, X. (2016). Crystallization of Statistical Copolymers. In: Auriemma, F., Alfonso, G., de Rosa, C. (eds) Polymer Crystallization I. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2016_349

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