X-ray Images of Plastic Polymers (IMAGE)

Stanford University

X-ray Images of Plastic Polymers

Caption

These X-ray images reveal the microscopic structure of two semiconducting plastic polymers. The bottom image, with several big crystals stacked in a row, is from a highly ordered polymer sample. The top image shows a disordered polymer with numerous tiny crystals that are barely discernible.

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Jonathan Rivnay (Stanford) and Michael Toney (SSRL/SLAC)

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