SHORT-RANGE ORDER IN NONCRYSTALLINE POLYMERS EXAMINED WITH SPIN-POLARIZED NEUTRONS

The application of spin-polarized neutrons with spin polarization anal ysis to study diffraction patterns from polymers is discussed. The exp erimental separation of the coherent and incoherent parts of the scatt ering coupled with the use of the internal standard resulted in the qu antitative analysis of the purely coherent scattering from unfunctiona lized and functionalized polystyrene in terms of absolute units. This allowed us to model the scattering curves in terms of paracrystallinit y. (C) 1993 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.