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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS
Volume 52, Issue 10, Pages 677-699Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/polb.23473
Keywords
isotactic polypropylene; mechanical properties; metallocene catalysts; morphology; polymorphism
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- Basell Polyolefins (Ferrara, Italy)
- MIUR
- Claudio De Rosa and Finizia Auriemma
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The combination of the control of the concentration of stereodefects in isotactic polypropylene using metallocene catalysts and the crystallization via the mesophase is a strategy to tailor the mechanical properties. Stiff materials, flexible materials, and thermoplastic elastomers can be produced depending only on the concentration of rr stereodefects. Modulus, ductility, and strength can be modulated through the crystallization of and forms or of the mesophase. Different morphologies are observed depending on the stereoregularity and conditions of crystallization. Crystals of the mesomorphic form always exhibit a nodular morphology, accounting for the similar good deformability of all quenched samples, whatever the concentration of stereodefects. The mesophase transforms by thermal treatments into the form preserving the nodular morphology, with increase of strength while maintaining the ductility typical of the mesophase. Annealing of the mesophase permits a precise adjustment of crystallinity and size of nodular crystals offering additional options to modify the mechanical properties. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2014, 52, 677-699
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