Crystallinity regularity

Polymers <100% crystalline Regularity of structure needed for high crystallinity Stretching Cold drawing... 

Insulin preparations are fast, intermediate, or long acting, as summarized in Table 52.1. Crystalline (regular) insulin may be used as a supplemental injection or for instituting corrective measures in the management of infection and trauma, for postoperative stabilization, and for the rehabilitation of patients recovering from ketoacidosis and coma. In addition, NPH (isophane) contains regular insulin. 

Waxes are another familiar type of solid-solid solution. Most waxes are amorphous solids that may contain small regions of crystalline regularity. A natural wax is a solid of biological origin that is insoluble in water but dissolves in nonpolar solvents. 

Some substances are obviously crystalline (regular-shaped solids with flat faces). 

Various thin evaporated films Crystalline. Regular orientation of crystal grains to match orientation of substrate Kirschner(S)... 

Polymers without configurational regularity are called atactic. Configurationally regular polymers can fonn crystalline stmctures, while atactic polymers are almost always amorjihous. Many polymers consist of linear molecules, however, nonlinear chain architectures are also important (figure C2.1.2). 

Zeolites (section C2.13) are unique because they have regular pores as part of their crystalline stmctures. The pores are so small (about 1 nm in diameter) that zeolites are molecular sieves, allowing small molecules to enter the pores, whereas larger ones are sieved out. The stmctures are built up of linked SiO and AlO tetrahedra that share O ions. The faujasites (zeolite X and zeolite Y) and ZSM-5 are important industrial catalysts. The stmcture of faujasite is represented in figure C2.7.11 and that of ZSM-5 in figure C2.7.12. The points of intersection of the lines represent Si or A1 ions oxygen is present at the centre of each line. This depiction emphasizes the zeolite framework stmcture and shows the presence of the intracrystalline pore stmcture. In the centre of the faujasite stmcture is an open space (supercage) with a diameter of about 1.2 nm. The pore stmcture is three dimensional. 

The problems already mentioned at the solvent/vacuum boundary, which always exists regardless of the size of the box of water molecules, led to the definition of so-called periodic boundaries. They can be compared with the unit cell definition of a crystalline system. The unit cell also forms an "endless system without boundaries" when repeated in the three directions of space. Unfortunately, when simulating hquids the situation is not as simple as for a regular crystal, because molecules can diffuse and are in principle able to leave the unit cell. 

Into the reaction flask is added 912g crystalline guaiacol and 1500g regular 48% HBr which is then slowly heated to reflux. The tepid water condenser is there to allow the bro-momethane that is formed to leave the reaction flask but is still cold enough to keep the other reactants in the reaction flask. The noxious bro-moethane condenses in the cold water condenser and drips into the chilled methanol in the collection flask. This will keep this bromoethane trapped so that the chemist will not die... 

Polymers of different tacticity have quite different properties, especially in the solid state. One of the requirements for polymer crystallinity is a high degree of microstructural regularity to enable the chains to pack in an orderly manner. Thus atactic polypropylene is a soft, tacky substance, whereas both isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylenes are highly crystalline. 

Between T j, and Tg, depending on the regularity of the polymer and on the experimental conditions, this domain may be anything from almost 100% crystalline to 100% amorphous. The amorphous fraction, whatever its abundance, behaves like a supercooled liquid in this region. The presence of a certain degree of crystallinity mimics the effect of crosslinking with respect to the mechanical behavior of a sample. 

The polymers compared all have similar crystal structures but are different from polyethylene, which excludes the possibility for also including the latter in this series. Also note that the isotactic structure of these molecules permits crystallinity in the first place. With less regular microstructure, crystallization would not occur at all. 

Typical pore size distributions for these adsorbents have been given (see Adsorption). Only molecular sieve carbons and crystalline molecular sieves have large pore volumes in pores smaller than 1 nm. Only the crystalline molecular sieves have monodisperse pore diameters because of the regularity of their crystalline stmctures (41). 

Fig. 2. The distribution of silicon—oxygen—silicon bond angles in vitreous siUca (22,25). The function V(a) is the fraction of bonds with angles normalized to the most probable angle, 144°. This distribution gives quite a regular stmcture on the short range, with gradual distorting over a distance of 3 or 4 rings (2—3 nm). Crystalline siUca such as quartz or cristobaUte would have a narrower distribution around specific bond angles.

The ultraphosphates are situated between P O q and the metaphosphates. These comparatively Htde-known, highly cross-linked polymers contain at least some of the phosphoms atoms as triply coimected branching points. This stmctural feature is quite unstable toward hydrolysis. Ultraphosphates undergo rapid decomposition upon dissolution. In amorphous ultraphosphates, the cross-linking is presumably scattered randomly throughout the stmctural matrix in contrast, crystalline ultraphosphates have a regular pattern. 

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