Chain Trajectory Chain Packing and Molecular Dynamics of Semicrystalline Polymers as Studied by Solid-State NMR

摘要

Chain-level structure of semicrystalline polymers in melt- and solution-grown crystals has been debated over the past half century. Recently, ¹³C–¹³C double quantum (DQ) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been successfully applied to investigate chain-folding (CF) structure and packing structure of ¹³C enriched polymers after solution and melt crystallization. We review recent NMR studies for (i) packing structure, (ii) chain trajectory, (iii) conformation of the folded chains, (iv) nucleation mechanisms, (v) deformation mechanism, and (vi) molecular dynamics of semicrystalline polymers.