Single crystal texture

Here we examine models that try to explain how textures develop during deposition on oriented (single-crystal), textured, polycrystalline, and amorphous substrates. We select electrodeposition of nickel as a model system. 

In the past there have been several attempts to investigate the relationship between structure and mechanical properties in polyethylene. It has proved possible to produce samples of the polymer with a single-crystal texture ( ) but they are still polycrystalline and certain ambiguities remain concerning the detailed deformation mechanisms in such samples (9 ). There have also been reports of studies of the deformation of single crystals of polyethylene on extensible substrates (10,11). Because the polymer... 

Bartczak, Z., Argon, A. S., and Cohen, R. E. (1992) Deformation mechanisms and plastic resistance in single-crystal textured high density polyethylene, Macromolecules, 25,... 

Z. Bartczak, A. S. Argon, and R. E. Cohen, Deformation Mechanisms and Plastic Resistance in Single Crystal Textured High Density Polyethylene , Macromolecules 25, 5036-5053 (1992). 

Modelling polymers with a single-crystal texture... 

Modeling Polymers with a Single-Crystal Texture... 

Mareau and Prud homme. Multilayer structures grown at room temperature in films with d > 100 nm, best described as poorly faceted hedrites, exhibit single crystal texture by ED [70]. The inescapable conclusion is that, at least in thin and ultrathin films, the growth direction of, or within, a single crystal can occur in a manner that bears no relation to crystal symmetry. 

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