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Title: | Elastic properties of polypropylene/ethylene-octene copolymer blends | ||||||||||
Author: | Svoboda (FT), Petr; Theravalappil, Rajesh; Svobodová, Dagmar; Mokrejš, Pavel; Kolomazník, Karel; Mori, Keisuke; Ougizawa, Toshiaki; Inoue, Takashi | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | Polymer Testing. 2010, vol. 29, issue 6, p. 742-748 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0142-9418 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2010.05.014 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | Blends of polypropylene (PP) and ethylene-octene copolymer (EOC) across the whole composition range (10, 20, ., 80, 90 wt.%) were investigated with focus on mechanical properties. Samples (0-50% of PP) were stretched in a tensile machine to given elongations (100, 200 and 300%) and then the crosshead returned to the initial position. The residual strain values were obtained from the hysteresis curves. These residual strain values were plotted as a function of applied strain and PP content. Stress at given elongation (M100 and M300) was also plotted as a function of PP content. At low PP content (0?20%), residual strain and stress at given elongation are close to those of pure EOC. A steeper increase in these values was observed for concentrations 20?50% of PP. Another set of experiments involved tensile testing to break (full range of concentrations). From these experiments, tensile modulus and stress at break were evaluated and plotted as a function of PP content. Modulus values were close to that of pure EOC in the range of 0?25% of PP. Then, the values start to increase almost linearly with increasing PP content. The mechanical properties of the blends were correlated with the structure observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). At 20% PP, there are PP particles with round shape uniformly dispersed in the EOC matrix. When the PP content increased to 30%, the shape of the PP particles changed to elongated. In the case of 40% of PP, the structure resembles a co-continuous one. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) revealed the nature of the excellent elastic behavior of EOC. EOC crystals at 7 wt% act as tie points for amorphous chains (physical cross-linking). | ||||||||||
Full text: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142941810000930 | ||||||||||
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