Which outcome occurs when annealing a polymer containing numerous hydrogen bonds?

💡 Explanation

When annealing a polymer, increased thermal energy allows polymer chains to overcome energy barriers, and hydrogen bonds facilitate chain alignment, increasing crystallinity because of their directionality. Therefore greater crystallinity results, rather than decreased strength/glass transition which require chain disruption.

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