Insights into the Influence of Solvent Polarity on the Crystallization of Poly(ethylene oxide) Spin-Coated Thin Films viain SituGrazing Incidence Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bradford
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 38
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00312
- Title of journal
- Macromolecules
- Article number
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- First page
- 4579
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 12
- ISSN
- 0024-9297
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00312
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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10
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The crystallisation behaviour of a model polymer, poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), during spin coating was studied in-situ using grazing incidence x-ray scattering via synchrotron radiation. This six University interdisciplinary collaborative work highlights, and quantifies, the importance of considering individual components of polymer solubility, rather than the more traditionally utilised simple total solubility, when designing processing routes for the generation of morphologies with optimum crystallinities. The conclusions feed into subject areas of materials science, polymer physics, crystallography and chemical engineering design.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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