Relaxation methods for studying transformations in polymer systems

Abstract

It is known that self-organisation of nanostructures according to the bottom-up approach is driven by the competition of several processes: surface tension, diffusion, gravity, buoyant force and, perhaps, molecular coordination phenomenon. The last one was discussed in the 70s in terms of the so-called “mobile organised molecular arrays” and proved with the help of nuclear magnetic relaxation. This study shows examples of self-organised structures obtained electrochemically by authors and provides a discussion regarding the same terms.

Keywords

• self-organization
• nuclear magnetic relaxation
• polymers
• relaxation processes
• microcontainers