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The "quasi-thermal" mechanism for electron beam damage of n-paraffins
Abstract:
Electron diffraction patterns from epitaxially grown microcrystals of n-hexatriacontane, which are slightly damaged by the electron beam, strongly resemble those from the same material when it is warmed just below the pre-melt hexagonal phase. The identity of these diffraction patterns, which display a marked attenuation of lamellar 001 reflections but much less alteration of the strongest reflections, implies that both processes occur via the induction of chain defects which, in turn, generate chain-end voids in the crystal packing. Such defects, however, need not be identical for the two events. With warming they are probably the gtg-1 kink and the gauche chain conformers identified by infrared spectroscopy. The creation of trans vinylene groups during radiation damage will also increase chain flexibility, and perhaps induce the production of gtg-1 kinks.
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