Structural transformations of UHMWPE-based fibers prepared by orientational drawing have been studied by the combination of
SAXS and WAXS methods, photo- and diffractometry, and isometric DSC measurements in a wide temperature range. A sequence of
phase transformations and other structural changes has been followed and identified during the orientational deformation of
the fibers in a wide range of draw ratios from 1 to 85 within the temperature interval from room temperature to the melting
temperature of the polymer.
Original Russian Text © E.M. Antipov, Yu.A. Lebedev, A.V. Rebrov, S.A. Kuptsov, P.M. Pakhomov, V.P. Galitsin, 2007, published
in Vysokomolekulyarnye Soedineniya, Ser. A, 2007, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 1003–1012.
This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project nos. 05-03-32088, 06-03-32609-a, and 06-03-08111-ofi.