Conformational and Packing Energy Analysis of Polymer Epitaxy

53 Conformational and Packing Energy Analysis of Polymer Epitaxy 

The rules that govern polymer epitaxy have been deduced mainly from the analysis of observed epitaxies. The dimensional match at the unit-cell scale merely implies that the local favorable interaction are repeated on a two-dimensional (or at least on a one-dimensional) array in the contact plane. The topographic matching refers to the unit-cell scale interactions. In some instances (illustrated earlier with, e.g., the formation of the sPP Form II on 2-quinoxaUnol) the topographic requirements are obvious and indeed intuitively sound. 

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