Supermolecular Structure of Intermacromolecular Complexes

As a result, a study of such selective intermacromolecular complexation and substitution reaction would be expected to clarify the fundamental phenomenon of the specific polymer reaction in biological systems and the polymer effects of synthetic macromolecules. 

The macromolecular chains would form random coils or would become dispersed in the form of specific conformations. It seems that the formation of liquid crystalline layers of synthetic polypeptides is one of the examples of processes where ordered structures are spontaneously formed510. Aggregates could be dissolved only in good solvents whose enthalpy of mixing is negative 

In such a way, an ordered supermolecular structure could be spontaneously formed from polymers exhibiting a random coil structure. The fundamental cause of this transformation is naturally the first-order structure of the polymer, i.e. its chemical structure. If a polymer with the proper structural units was prepared, then fiber formation would be accelerated and would especially account for the formation of a highly ordered structure. 

Generally, in linear polymer systems, there are amorphous, semicrystalline and crystalline regions coexisting in a single polymer chain511. As shown in Table 25, the polyelectrolyte complex does not exhibit sufficient crystallinity 

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Several studies on the supermolecular structure of aggregated intermacromolecular complexes performed by optical and electron microscopies have been reported. The obtained results are summarized in Table 26. Under polarized light, assemblies of intermacromolecular complexes appear to be light, as shown in Fig. 50. From the results of X-ray analysis and polarized... 

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