Crystal structure and texture refinement of polymers from diffraction images

In the present work, we present a methodology to analyze diffraction images of polymers to obtain crystal structure, texture and microstructural information. A laboratory image plate system has been used to collect diffraction images in transmission and reflection diffraction of aligned and strained fibers of different polymers. The images have been processedby a structure refinement approach including a Rietveld Texture Analysis for each polymer.