The phrase "alignment of the chains" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to mechanics, logistics, or systems where chains need to be properly aligned for functionality or efficiency.
Example: "The alignment of the chains in the conveyor system is crucial for smooth operation and to prevent any jams."
Alternatives: "adjustment of the chains" or "positioning of the chains".
The preferential alignment of the chains with respect to the walls suppresses reorientations in perpendicular direction, whereas parallel reorientations take place in an environment of high monomer density.
as well as fabrication methods, and post-processing affect crystallinity, orientation, and size of the crystallites, and alignment of the chains in semicrystalline structure of these polymers.
In addition, the narrowing of the imidization temperature range occurred even if there was complete removal of NMP before the onset of imidization, suggesting that the morphology of the films or the orientational alignment of the chains was changed by prior annealing in NMP, perhaps due to mesophase formation.
Another factor which also affects the electrical conductivity is the molecular alignment of the chains within the entire system.
According to Kalur et al. (2005), shear banding and shear-thinning behavior are the result of the existence of wormlike micelles due to the dynamics of relaxation, breakage and recombination of the micellar structure as well as the alignment of the chains and disentanglement with respect to the flow gradient (Hu and Lips 2005; Kalur et al. 2005).
A difference between monolayers and bilayers, both on the substrate, is the interactions between the monolayers in a bilayer that manifests itself in parallel alignment of the chains in both monolayers.
In contrast, stress distributions of the sample with low mechanical anisotropy were less affected by the alignment of the chain axis.
The keys to Kevlar's strength are the unusual tenacity of the bonds within and between its molecules, and the regimented alignment of the molecular chains, like bundles of tiny rebar.
By polarized optical microscopy, we determined that the anisotropic texture of the fibers was indicative of parallel alignment of the molecular chains to the fiber axis.
These variations in intensity suggest that the alignment of the protein chains decreases with strain which might be due to the reorganization of the amorphous phase.
This was also reported by Martin et al. [30] previously, and could be ascribed to the enhancement of molecular and super-molecular ordering (alignment of the polymer chains).
