Polymers/Properties
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Tacticity (stereochemistry) can change the properties of the polymer.
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Isotactic | Syndiotactic | Atactic |
Molecular mass
Number average (Mn) and weight average (Mw).
Glass transition (Tg) and melting temperature (Tm)
- Tm: crystalline regions, first order transition
- Tg: amorphous regions, second order transition
- hydrogen bonding increases Tg
- longer side chains lowers Tg
- at or below Tg, the ratio of free volume to total volume of polymer is constant