SPINNING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBERS FROM POLY(2,6-DICHLORO-P-PHENYLENETEREPHTHALAMIDE) - A STUDY OF CONSTITUTIONAL ISOMERISM AND SOLID-STATE ARRANGEMENTS BY COMPARISON BETWEEN SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT
Bh. Glomm et al., SPINNING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBERS FROM POLY(2,6-DICHLORO-P-PHENYLENETEREPHTHALAMIDE) - A STUDY OF CONSTITUTIONAL ISOMERISM AND SOLID-STATE ARRANGEMENTS BY COMPARISON BETWEEN SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT, Macromolecular chemistry and physics, 195(2), 1994, pp. 475-510
Fibers of three constitutionally isomeric rigid-rod polymers, produced
by polycondensation of 2,6-dichloro-p-phenylenediamine and terephthal
oyl dichloride, were spun from nematic solutions and characterized by
wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) measurements and mechanical tests.
A post-spin heat treatment was employed to improve the low degrees of
orientation and crystallinity that the untreated fibers showed. The d
ominating crystal structure of constitutionally ordered head-to-head/t
ail-to-tail fibers seems to be very similar to ''Modification II'' of
the fibers from poly(p-phenyleneterephthalamide) (PPTA), but the fiber
s do not suffer a comparable structural transformation upon heat treat
ment. Influences of the constitutional regularity in the chains on the
crystal structure, structural order and mechanical properties of the
fibers could be observed. Both the observed crystal structure and the
experimentally determined mechanical properties agree well with the re
sults of detailed atomistic modeling predictions.