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In-situ Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Investigation of Transient Nanostructure of Multi-phase Polymer Materials Under Mechanical Deformation

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In this chapter the data-evaluation procedures are discussed. Most of the data-evaluation steps are performed by programs written in an image processing soft-ware, PV-WAVE \({}^{\textregistered }\) [1]. Computer programing is highly required due to the large number of recorded patterns. Most computer programs run automatically after adjustment to the actual experimental conditions. In some programs the user have to define a Region Of Interest (ROI) on the first image and afterwards the program runs automatically.

“Method consists entirely in the order and disposition of the objects towards which our mental vision must be directed if we would find out any truth. We shall comply with it exactly if we reduce involved and obscure propositions step by step to those that are simpler, and then starting with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all others by precisely similar steps.”

...René Descartes.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    All programs are freely available: http://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/tmc/stribeck/pv-wave/index_e.html.

  2. 2.

    See: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/.

  3. 3.

    Where \(b\) indicates the width of a block in analogy with the notion of Strobl’s block structure [7, 8] observed during crystallization of polypropylene.

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Zeinolebadi, A. (2013). Data Evaluation. In: In-situ Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Investigation of Transient Nanostructure of Multi-phase Polymer Materials Under Mechanical Deformation. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35413-7_3

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