Tensile Stress Relaxation Behavior of Propylene-Ethylene Copolymers

Relaxation of Shear-Induced Precursors in Isotactic Polypropylene and Random Propylene-Ethylene copolymers

On the Configurational Statistics of Ethylene-Propylene Copolymers

Mean-square unperturbed dimensions {r2)0 and their temperature coefficient d In{r2)0/dT have been calculated for ethylene-propylene copolymers by means of the rotational isomeric state theory of chain molecules. Conformational energies required in the analysis are shown to be readily obtained from previous analyses of polyethylene and polypropylene, without additional approximations. Results th...

High-Stress Shear-Induced Crystallization in IsotacticPolypropylene and Propylene/Ethylene Random Copolymers

Crystallization of an isotactic polypropylene (iPP) homopolymer and two propylene/ethylene random copolymers (RACO), induced by high-stress shear, was studied using in situ synchrotron wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) at 137 °C. The “depth sectioning” method (Fernandez-Ballester, Journal of Rheology 53:5 (2009), pp. 1229−1254) was applied in order to isolate the contributions of different la...

Synthesis and Saxs Characterization of Sulfonated Styrene-ethylene/propylene-styrene Triblock Copolymers

Quantification of identical and unique segments in ethylene-propylene copolymers using two dimensional liquid chromatography with infra-red detection

Hyphenating High Temperature High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HT-HPLC) with High Temperature Size Exclusion Chromatography (HT-SEC) (High Temperature Two Dimensional Liquid Chromatography (HT-HPLC x HT-SEC or HT 2D-LC)) leads to an isocratic elution in the second dimension, which in turn enables to use IR detector (quantitative detection) for monitoring the eluting polymers. Experimental...