50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Crystals and Crystallization: Personal Journeys in a Challenging Research Field

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00907
• Publication Date: 2017-08-22T04:10:27Z
• Authors: Bernard Lotz; Toshikazu Miyoshi; Stephen Z. D. Cheng
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Analyzing and understanding the structure and morphology of crystalline polymers has been and remains to be a major challenge. Some of the issues have resisted analyses for decades. The present account illustrates how individual contributions help build a body of knowledge that must cover length scales ranging from submolecular features to morphology and correlates them with bulk properties. Emphasis is put on structures and morphologies as formed spontaneously. Possible extension of the research area to connected fields is illustrated with a development on supramolecular crystals.