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Evaporation of poly(1,4-phenylene) on heated carbon and gold substrates under vacuum affords oriented thin layer crystalline film of the polymer with its c-axis (the polymer chain axis) essentially perpendicular to the surface of the substrates as revealed by electron diffraction method.
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Yamamoto et al. (1990) studied this question.
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