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Special Processing Forms

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Electron Microscopy of Polymers

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This chapter provides an overview of newdevelopments and trends in the field of special micro- and nanostructured polymers. Multilayered films are produced by coextrusion and consist of up to several thousand layers containing two ormore polymers with layer thicknesses in the micrometre and nanometre range. Self-reinforced polymers aremade of highly oriented polymer fibres or films of the same polymers,which are linked together by applying heat and pressure, in a process called hot compaction. Nanofibres with diameters ranging frommicrometres to nanometres – i.e. several orders of magnitude smaller than those made by conventional fibre spinning – can be produced via electrospinning. Processing small amounts of polymers via microextrusion or microinjection gives microformed samples with structures and properties that are often different from those of bulk pieces; such samples are used for applications in electronics or medicine. Typical examples of the morphologies and micromechanical effects of these four special processing forms are illustrated via TEM and SEM.

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(2008). Special Processing Forms. In: Electron Microscopy of Polymers. Springer Laboratory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36352-1_25

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