Interfacial crystallization and its mechanism in in-situ dynamically vulcanized iPP/POE blends |
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Authors: | Ming Tian Ting Li Liqun Zhang Hongchi Tian Youping Wu Nanying Ning |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China;2. Key Laboratory of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China |
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Abstract: | The effect of in-situ crosslinking of poly (ethylene-co-octene) (POE) rubber phase on the interfacial crystallization of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) in dynamically vulcanized iPP/POE blends was studied. The results showed that in situ crosslinking of POE obviously increased the interfacial crystallization of iPP in the dynamically vulcanized blends, comparing with that of pure iPP and the unvulcanized blend. The interfacial crystallization of iPP was further increased with the increase in crosslink degree. After annealing, the obvious interfacial crystallization was still obtained in the blend with high crosslink degree. Based on the fluctuation assisted nucleation mechanism in solution blended iPP/polyolefin block copolymer (OBC) blends, we proposed for the first time the interfacial crystallization mechanism in dynamically vulcanized blends: the oriented chains of iPP formed by concentration fluctuation at the interface during phase separation or shearing stress during melt mixing can be maintained because of the in situ crosslinking of POE phase, resulting in the enhancement of nucleation density at the iPP/POE interface. Our study proposes a new interfacial crystallization mechanism, and provides guidance for the preparation of high performance thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) product by tailoring the interfacial crystallization of TPVs. |
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Keywords: | Interfacial crystallization In situ crosslinking Thermoplastic vulcanizates |
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