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High strength and high modulus fibers of poly(p-xylylene) (PPX) were obtained by drawing of as-polymerized films (molecular weight 5×105) at 420 °C in the conformationally disordered β2 phase. Fibers of PPX have been obtained having a tensile strength at break of 3.0 GPa, a Young's modulus of 102 GPa and a strain at break of 3 %. The theoretical strength of PPX was calculated to be 23 GPa.
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van der Werff, H., Pennings, A.J. High strength and high modulus fibers of poly(p-xylylene). Polymer Bulletin 19, 587–594 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00283106
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