Relations between Stereoregularity and Melt Viscoelasticity of Syndiotactic Polypropylene
Relations between Stereoregularity and Melt Viscoelasticity of Syndiotactic Polypropylene
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DOI:
10.1021/ma401469a
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发表时间:
2013-09
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5.5
通讯作者:
Naveed Ahmad;R. Girolamo;F. Auriemma;C. Rosa;N. Grizzuti
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作者:
Naveed Ahmad;R. Girolamo;F. Auriemma;C. Rosa;N. Grizzuti
A set of syndiotactic polypropylene samples with tailored degree of stereoregularity and uniform distribution of stereodefects, obtained via organometallic catalysis, was used to study the relation between the syndiotactic pentad concentration and the viscoelastic plateau modulus in the melt state. The plateau modulus was found to increase with increasing the degree of stereoregularity, indicating that syndiotactic polypropylenes of different stereoregularity produce a different entanglement density of the amorphous phase. The change in plateau modulus was highly nonlinear for large values of syndiotactic pentad contents, suggesting that the presence of even a relatively small number of defects along the syndiotactic backbone significantly alters the space filling attitude of the polymer chain in the melt. This result, which confirms and extends those already obtained from experiments and numerical simulations, points out to the concept that the dynamics of macromolecular chains is largely controlled by t...