Structure, Morphology, and Crystallization Behavior of Syndiotactic Polystyrene

Structure, Morphology, and Crystallization Behavior of Syndiotactic Polystyrene 

Chemical and Food Engineering Department, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy 

The great number of papers and patents that appeared on this polymer in the last years are the main results of these studies. The principal objective of these studies was the crystallization behavior of SPS, the structure of the ordered forms, and the properties of SPS with the respect to the processing conditions. The possibility of controlling the conditions for obtaining controlled structures indeed is particularly interesting in view of the different physical properties that the various polymorphic structures show. 

In this chapter, an attempt is made to synthesize the principal founding on this polymer and analyze it in terms of structural organization and crystal morphology. 

Syndiotactic polystyrene can crystallize in many crystal forms as well nonequilibrium structures depending on the thermo-mechanical processing conditions 

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