ISSN:
0025-116X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The evolution of the structure of iodine chains in iodine-doped polyacetylene has been followed as a function of temperature. It is shown that these chains exhibit a disorder of the second kind characterized by the lack of long-range order in chain direction. A low-temperature improvement of intra-chain order demonstrates that a substantial part of this disorder is thermal in nature. A parallel is drawn to similar effects frequently observed in crystalline iodine chain organic charge transfer salts. Furthermore, fresh samples with a nominal composition CHI0,24 are unstable under the X-ray beam. They exhibit a slow transition toward an apparently stable form corresponding to CHI0,19. The diffraction pattern in chain direction of this form can be quantitatively explained with a simple model using triiodide chains only. A comparison with other models proposed in the literature is made.
Additional Material:
10 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.1992.021930404
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