Ordered modification

Fig. 7 a, b. Possible models of packing, for trans-planar chains of s-PS, for the limiting ordered modifications a) hexagonal (a") the relative heights of the centers of the phenyl rings are indicated in c/6 units [28] b) orthorhombic (P") the relative heights of the centers of the phenyl rings are indicated in c/4 units [7, 29]... 

All the modifications of the a form would present, perpendicular to the b axis, macromolecular bilayers including all isoclined chains. A regular succession of bilayers with anticlined helices would correspond to the limiting ordered modification (a2), while a statistical succession of bilayers would correspond to the limiting disordered modification (a ) [40]. 

A condition to have, together with a fully ordered modification, more or less disordered modifications corresponding to a same unit cell is a substantial equality of steric hindrances in the space regions, where the statistical diadochy is achieved, as will be shown in the following. 

Irreversible transformations, from more disordered toward more ordered modifications of a given form have been, for instance, observed for the a form of i-PP [39,40,43,44] (see Sect. 2.4), as well as for the most common form of i-PS [74], In these cases the transitions occur by recrystallization processes in the respective melting regions. 

For the case of the crystallization from the amorphous phase, the blending with PPO for lower contents (less than 30wt%) favours the obtainment of the a" ordered modification with respect to the a disordered modification, which is obtained for the unblended polymer. For higher PPO contents the obtainment of the p form is favored [105]. This behavior would be simply due to the increases of the glass transition temperature, and hence of the crystallization temperature on heating, which correspond to increased PPO contents in the blends [105],... 

The configurational entropy on the b lattice is given by an identical equation. For the perfect long-range ordered modification the configurational entropy is zero, and the entropy change due to disorder is thus... 

Except for some quadrupolar effects, all the interactions mentioned are small compared with the Zeeman interaction between the nuclear spin and the applied magnetic field, which was discussed in detail in Chapter 2. Under these circumstances, the interaction may be treated as a perturbation, and the first-order modifications to energy levels then arise only from terms in the Hamiltonian that commute with the Zeeman Hamiltonian. This portion of the interaction Hamiltonian is often called the secular part of the Hamiltonian, and the Hamiltonian is said to be truncated when nonsecular terms are dropped. This secular approximation often simplifies calculations and is an excellent approximation except for large quadrupolar interactions, where second-order terms become important. 

A method to elude those defects, induced reconstructions, or anion adsorption is to transfer the electrodes under well-controlled conditions including atmosphere. Thus, undesirable effects from oxygen adsorption or impurities as a source of voltammogram modifications can be avoided. These requirements are fulfilled in the iodine-carbon monoxide substitution method which was proposed for the preparation of clean and well-ordered Pt( 111) [66] and applied to Pt(100) clean surface preparation [67]. An interesting alternative to this method would be to find experimental conditions that maintain a carbon monoxide adlayer for surface protection during the transfer, assuming that this adsorption is innocuous for the surface structure itself. If this efficient protection makes no detectable surface-order modifications for Pt(100) electrodes as deduced from the cyclic voltammetric contour, we can conclude that this protection method is convenient for studying the influence of anion adsorption on the surface structure in transfer experiments. 

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These results confirm, hence, a model in which different seii ses of spiralization succeed each other frequently along the chain (for instance in fig. 7 the statistical succession of dihedral angles. .. T T T T T T T T T. . is represented). But, in sp te of the disorder, the threedimensional order is assured because the atoms are able to maintain a fixed distance from the chain a-xis, so that the fluorine atoms remain confined in cylindrical eri velops having nearly the same size as in the ordered modification. 

Following Smith and Yoder [1956], Zvyagin [1967] has proposed symbols to represent the numbers of layers and symmetry of the kaolin group minerals. In the system proposed by Smith and Yoder, kaolin that contains one layer in a triclinic unit cell is symbolized as IT, and dickite that contains two layers in a monoclinic cell is symbolized as 2M. Bailey [1963], recognizing that the ordering of cations or the vacant octahedral position in the dioctahedral minerals changes the size, shape, and symmetry of the unit cell, has modified the Smith and Yoder system to indicate in one double symbol the basic crystallographic form and its ordered modification. 

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