Oxidative stress destructive properties

Oxidation of polymer is accompanied by the change of their structure - physical properties - crystallinity, molecular mobility, strength and so on. Orientation of crystalline regions is disturbed in stressed samples the number of crystals with definite space orientation of crystal lattice axes decreases, the form of the curve of crystal distribution axes in respect to orientation axis changes. Change for the worse of crystals orientation is explained by stress relief, occurring in polymer at the expense of oxidative destruction of macromolecules in amorphous intercrystalline region [301]. 

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