The effect of interference between anisotropic scattering entities on the light scattering from polymer films. I. Case of no impingement

Equations are developed for describing the effect of interspherulitic interference on the scattering of light by anisotropic spherulites. These are used to account for the variation in V V and H H scattered intensity during the course of spherulitic crystallization. The scattering depends upon the number of spherulites, their size, their anisotropy, the difference between one of their polarizabilities and that of the surroundings, and the radial distribution function of spherulite centers.