Citation: Xu Jun, Zhang Shujing, Guo Baohua. Insights from polymer crystallization: Chirality, recognition and competition[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2017, 28(11): 2092-2098. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2017.10.012 shu

Insights from polymer crystallization: Chirality, recognition and competition

Advanced Materials Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Corresponding author: Xu Jun, jun-xu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Received Date: 31 August 2017
Revised Date: 27 September 2017
Accepted Date: 12 October 2017
Available Online: 16 November 2017

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Crystallization of flexible polymer chains reveals distinct characters compared to small molecules, which provides a platform to study molecular self-assembly and morphogenesis. In this review, some examples, e.g., twisting chirality of polymer lamellar crystals, recognition of different chain units and competitive nucleation of different polymorphs and different lamellar thicknesses are briefly discussed. It is shown that the polymer crystallization process far from equilibrium is in practically minimization of the system free energy in local space and finite time, leading to formation of twisted crystals, metastable polymorphism and lamellar crystals with finite thickness. Though each molecule is blind to others, the peculiar ordered configurations with stronger long-range interactions are chosen from the enormous random trials. At the end, we list some remaining questions and outlook the perspectives.
- Polymer crystallization,
- Chiral growth,
- Lamellar twisting,
- Polymorphism,
- Competitive nucleation,
- Lamellar thickness,
- Lamellar width
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