The relationship between the treatment conditions and the resultant crystalline forms and the relationship between the specific volumes at 0°C and the two crystalline forms of the trans-polyisoprenes were examined using the X-ray diffraction method and volume dilatometry respectively.
The two relationships found for the former are that some trans-polyisoprenes crystallize in the β form by anneal and that the other trans-polyisoprenes crystallize in the γ form by anneal. The cause of these different crystallization behaviour is assumed to originate from some impurities contained in the polymer in a form of different materials or different structures, these impurities affecting the cooling rates which control the crystalline forms to crystallize under the given treatment conditions.
The three relationships found for the latter are that the β and γ forms have almost the same specific volume, that the two crystalline forms show different specific volumes, and that the same crystalline form has different specific volumes.
These complex relationships suggest the complex aspects existing in the two crystalline modifications of trans-polyisoprene which are not fully understood even at present.
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