Increase of Long‐chain Branching by Thermo‐oxidative Treatment of LDPE
Increase of Long‐chain Branching by Thermo‐oxidative Treatment of LDPE
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10.1063/1.3604477
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2011-07
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V. H. Rolón-Garrido;Jinji Luo;M. Wagner
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V. H. Rolón-Garrido;Jinji Luo;M. Wagner
Low‐density polyethylene (LDPE) was exposed to thermal and thermo‐oxidative treatment at 170 °C, and subsequently characterized by linear‐viscoelastic measurements and in uniaxial extension. The Molecular Stress Function (MSF) model was used to quantify the elongational viscosities measured. For the thermally treated samples, exposure times between 2 and 6 hours were applied. Formation of long‐chain branching (LCB) was found to occur only during the first two hours of thermal treatment. At longer exposure times, no difference in the level of strain hardening was observed. This was quantified by use of the MSF model: the nonlinear parameter fmax2 increased from fmax2 = 14 for the virgin sample to fmax2 = 22 for the samples thermally treated between 2 and 6 hours. For the thermo‐oxidatively treated samples, which were exposed to air during thermal treatment between 30 and 90 minutes, the level of strain hardening increases drastically up to fmax2 = 55 with increasing exposure times from 30 up to 75 min due ...