Study on molecular weight dependence of short‐chain branching of linear low‐density polyethylene using the gel permeation chromatography/Fourier transform infrared method
Study on molecular weight dependence of short‐chain branching of linear low‐density polyethylene using the gel permeation chromatography/Fourier transform infrared method
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凝胶渗透色谱/傅里叶变换红外法研究线性低密度聚乙烯短链支化的分子量依赖性
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10.1002/marc.1988.030090803
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1988
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Mitsuhiko Morimoto
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作者:
T. Housaki;K. Satoh;K. Nishikida;Mitsuhiko Morimoto
So-called linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) is becoming more and more commercially important. LLDPE has some short-chain branching (SCB) due to an a-olefin such as I-butene, 1-hexene, I-octene, or Cmethyl-1-pentene as the comonomer. The distribution of SCB is one of the factors the properties of LLDPE depend on. With this regard, an investigation of the detailed molecular structure of LLDPE was performed and the fact that LLDPE exhibits a heterogeneous chemical composition was observed'). So far, fractionation of LLDPE and subsequent determination of the molecular structure of each fraction by spectroscopic and other methods were employed to exemplify the heterogeneity of its chemical composition. However, the fractionation technique is time-consuming and tedius. In order to provide a system with rapid and easy operation, it would be desirable to obtain information on the molecular structure during fractionation without separation of solute from the eluent. In this rapid communication, the present authors wish to demonstrate that gel permeation chromatography/Fourier transform infrared present an alternative to the fractionation technique. This method utilizes GPC as a tool to separate LLDPE on the basis of molecular weight and an FTIR spectrophotometer as a tool to obtain information on the chemical structure during GPC analysis. The present system provides the molecular weight distribution of short chain branching as determined by GPCAR. a) Revised manuscript of April 23, 1988.