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This chapter is concerned with a technique, electron microscopy, with a very wide range of applications in polymer science. Introductory sections describe the major problems encountered, the methods normally applied to deal with them, and the limitations imposed by radiation damage. Moving on to describe recent developments, some are due to new instruments, particularly the scanning transmission electron microscope, others to methods of increasing contrast-defocus phase contrast and improved staining and etching techniques. The controversy over the presence of ordered domains in amorphous materials is then discussed.
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Grubb, D.T. (1982). Electron Microscopy of Crystalline Polymers. In: Bassett, D.C. (eds) Developments in Crystalline Polymers—1. The Developments Series, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7343-5_1
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