The Unlikely Order of Disordered Polymers
A new review in Nature Chemistry challenges the long-held dogma that polymer crystallization requires strict stereoregularity. It highlights the surprising phenomenon of atactic polymers—chains with a random arrangement of stereocenters—forming semicrystalline materials. This counterintuitive behavior suggests that factors beyond tacticity, such as specific intermolecular interactions or chain conformation, can drive the assembly of ordered structures from seemingly disordered building blocks.
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