Molecular Simulations of Quantized Lamellar Thickening in Polyethylenes with Regularly Spaced Brominated Groups

Kutlwano Gabana, Gillian A. Gehring, Hendrik Meyer +3

Polyethylene (PE) chains, with CH2 groups replaced by CBr2 at regular intervals ("precision PE"), have been observed to exhibit competing polymorphs driven by a preference for quan…