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ArticleACS macro letters2024

Lattice-Cluster-Theory-Informed Cross-Fractionation Chromatography Revealing Degree of Crystallinity of Single Macromolecular Species.

Zengxuan Fan, Jana Zimmermann, Lucio Colombi Ciacchi, Michael Fischlschweiger

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Zengxuan FanChair of Technical Thermodynamics and Energy Efficient Material Treatment, Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology, Clausthal University of Technology, Agricolastraße 4, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.
Jana ZimmermannChair of Technical Thermodynamics and Energy Efficient Material Treatment, Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology, Clausthal University of Technology, Agricolastraße 4, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.
Lucio Colombi CiacchiHybrid Materials Interface Group, Faculty of Production Engineering, Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science and MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1444-9733
Michael FischlschweigerChair of Technical Thermodynamics and Energy Efficient Material Treatment, Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology, Clausthal University of Technology, Agricolastraße 4, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0064-1292

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The relationship between macromolecular architecture and crystallization properties is a relevant research topic in polymer science and technology. The average degree of crystallinity of disperse polymers is a well-studied quantity and is accessible by various experimental methods. However, how the different macromolecular species contribute to the degree of crystallinity and, in particular, the relationship between a certain macromolecular architecture and the degree of crystallinity are not accessible today, neither experimentally nor theoretically. Therefore, in this work, a lattice cluster theory (LCT)-informed cross-fractionation chromatography (CFC) approach is developed to access the degree of crystallinity of single and nonlinear macromolecular species crystallizing from solution. The method entangles high-throughput experimental data from CFC with the LCT for semicrystalline polymers to predict the degree of crystallinity of polymer species with different molecular weights and branching. The approach is applied to a linear low-density polyethylene (ethylene/1-octene copolymer) and a high-density polyethylene, which have specific and different bivariate distributions. The degree of crystallinity of individual macromolecular species of these polymer samples is calculated, and the predicted average degree of crystallinity is compared with experimental measurements, thus successfully validating the approach. Furthermore, the average segment length between branches is introduced as a characteristic molecular feature of branched polyethylene, and its relationship with the degree of crystallinity of certain species is established.

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