This table includes all data collected and measured. Please correspond with us about improvements, new data, errors, etc. In the first column of the summary table, (a) represents amorphous, and (c) represents 100% crystalline; the mark ** indicates that heat capacities for semicrystalline polymers were used as approximation for the solid. The third row gives the abbreviated polymer name (file name) and references to the literature; the mark * next to the reference numbers indicates that an update is available only in the ATHAS data bank. Note that all data are chosen to be a close approximation to equilibrium crystals and its superheated state or equilibrium melt and its supercooled state. The normally found solids are often metastable, semicystalline. The melting and glass transition behavior of these can be used for characterization of the structure, as described in Ref. [10]. The heat capacites and integral thermal properties H,S,G are well represented by adding the appropriate fractional portions according to the weight fraction crystallinity. Those basic functions, when compared to measurement permit the assessment of "broad transitions", "entropy change outside transitions", and "rigid amorphous content".
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