New permethylindenyl-phenoxide (PHENI*) ansa -metallocene titanium complexes immobilised on inorganic solid supports are highly effective catalysts for ethylene polymerisation capable of producing disentangled ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene.

Aluminum oxide encapsulated high-permittivity (ε) BaTiO3 and ZrO2 core-shell nanoparticles having variable Al2O3 shell thicknesses were prepared via a layer-by-layer methylaluminoxane coating process. Subsequent chemisorptive activation of the single-site metallocene catalyst [rac-ethylenebisindenyl]zirconium dichloride (EBIZrCl2) on these Al2O3-encapsulated nanoparticles, followed by propylene...

The high-frequency dielectric response of 0-3 polypropylene nanocomposites prepared with the activated metallocene polymerization catalyst [rac-ethylenebisindenyl]zirconium dichlororide absorbed on the native Al(2)O(3) surfaces of metallic aluminum nanoparticles is characterized. The nanocomposites produced are randomly dispersed in the polyolefin matrix with no visible defects that might degra...

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is employed to investigate the structure and longchain branch (LCB) content of metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene (PE). A novel scaling approach is applied to SANS data to determine themole fraction branch content (φbr) of LCBs in PE. The approach also provides the average number of branch sites per chain (nbr) and the average number of branch sites per min...

Polypropylene (PP) random copolymers are an important class of commercial materials that can be tuned for a wide range different applications. The structure–property relations mainly discussed in this article focusing on two major influencing factors, the catalyst system and type amount comonomer. Ziegler–Natta (ZN) systems still dominate production polypropylene todays sixth-generation ZN cata...

Polyethylenes (PE) with long chain branching (LCB) densities up to 0.44 carbons/10 000 carbons and narrow molecular weight distributions were synthesized using a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) with the Dow Chemical’s constrained geometry catalyst system, CGCTi/TPFPB/MMAO, in Isopar E solution at 500 psig and 140–1908C. Rheological properties of these metallocene polyethylenes (mPE) were...

The first trimetallic dysprosocenium single-molecule magnet is described. This material signposts a polycationic dysprosium metallocene SMM with properties that could surpass those of leading systems.