Compatibility and morphology of blends of isotactic and atactic polypropylene |
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| Authors: | D. J. Lohse G. E. Wissler |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Corporate Research Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, 08801 Annandale, New Jersey, USA;(2) Polymers Group Exxon Chemical Company, P.O. Box 5200, 77522 Baytown, Texas, USA;(3) Present address: Exxon Chemical Company, Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company, PO Box 10084, 31961 Madinat Al-Jubail Al-Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | The compatibility and morphology of blends of isotactic and atactic polypropylene have been studied by several means: X-ray scattering, differential scanning calorimetry, and electron microscopy. It was found that the atactic polymer was located mainly inside the spherulites of the isotactic polypropylene on a scale approximately equal to that of the crystalline lamellae. This means that these two polymers were more intimately mixed than are blends of polypropylene and ethylene-propylene copolymer, in which the location of the copolymer is unrelated to the spherulite structure. This difference can be explained by the fact that atactic and isotactic polypropylene are miscible in the melt, whereas polypropylene and ethylene-propylene copolymer are not. |
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