亚临界流体挤出法复合诱导EPDM废胶粉脱硫化及动态交联热塑性弹性体制备

在三元乙丙废胶粉(W-EPDM)与未硫化的三元乙丙橡胶(EPDM)熔融挤出过程中,采用注入亚临界流体和提高双螺杆挤出机螺杆转速的方法,研究了亚临界流体品种(水,乙醇/水混合物,丙醇)、螺杆转速、脱硫促进剂品种(烷基酚多硫化物450、二烯丙基二硫醚)对脱硫共混物(DGTR/EPDM)凝胶含量、门尼粘度、溶胶红外吸收光谱及脱硫共混物共混PP动态交联热塑性弹性体((DEPDM/EPDM)/PP)力学性能的影响,对动态交联热塑性弹性体材料的试样断面形貌也进行了SEM观察。实验结果表明:亚临界乙醇/水混合物(7/3)或亚临界丙醇条件对脱硫反应中S—S键的断裂具有较好的选择性,可引起废胶粉交联网络中S—S交联键断裂反应增加,而主链断裂反应下降,所得脱硫产物制备的动态交联热塑性弹性体材料中未熔融的凝胶颗粒尺寸较小,材料的力学性能明显增大;脱硫促进剂烷基酚多硫化物450具明显的促进脱硫反应的作用。在亚临界正丙醇的最佳挤出反应条件下(220℃,600rpm,促进剂450),所得脱硫共混物(DEPDM/EPDM)制备的动态交联热塑性弹性体材料(DEPDM/EPDM)/PP的拉伸强度和断裂伸长率分别达到17.1MPa和443%,其力学性能和断面形貌结构明显优于以传统罐式脱硫法所得的相应材料。     

三元乙丙橡胶/聚丙烯热塑性弹性体

综述了三元乙丙橡胶/聚丙烯(EPDM/PP)热塑性弹性体的发展历程、市场情况以及EPDM/PP热塑性弹性体的结构、性能及其影响因素。EPDM/PP热塑性弹性体由EPDM和PP通过动态硫化技术制备而成,在室温下具有橡胶的高弹性,在加工温度下具有塑料的流动性。在性能上,EPDM/PP热塑性弹性体受加工设备、共混工艺、配合体系的综合影响。     

动态固化聚丙烯/环氧树脂共混物的研究

将动态硫化技术应用于热塑性树脂 热固性树脂体系 ,制备了动态固化聚丙烯 (PP) 环氧树脂共混物 .研究了动态固化PP 环氧树脂共混物中两组分的相容性、力学性能、热性能和动态力学性能 .实验结果表明 ,马来酸酐接枝的聚丙烯 (PP g MAH)作为PP和环氧树脂体系的增容剂 ,使分散相环氧树脂颗粒变细 ,增加了两组分的界面作用力 ,改善了共混物的力学性能 .与PP相比 ,动态固化PP 环氧树脂共混物具有较高的强度和模量 ,含 5 %环氧树脂的共混物拉伸强度和弯曲模量分别提高了 30 %和 5 0 % ,冲击强度增加了 15 % ,但断裂伸长率却明显降低 .继续增加环氧树脂的含量 ,共混物的拉伸强度和弯曲模量增加缓慢 ,冲击强度无明显变化 ,断裂伸长率进一步降低 .动态力学性能分析 (DMTA)表明动态固化PP 环氧树脂共混物是两相结构 ,具有较高的储能模量 (E′)     

PP/EPDM共混物热氧稳定性研究

通过热氧加速老化的方法研究了不同的EPDM含量和抗氧剂对聚丙烯和三元乙丙橡胶共混物(PP/EPDM)热氧稳定性的影响.通过对老化前后试样的力学性能变化分析,热失重(TG)分析和扫描电镜(SEM)分析,结果表明:在热氧加速老化的初期,PP/EPDM共混物的拉伸强度随着时间的增长呈逐渐上升的趋势;在老化中期,共混物的拉伸强度变化不大;在老化后期,共混物的拉伸强度逐渐下降.在整个老化过程中,断裂伸长率都呈逐渐下降的趋势.而随着EPDM含量的增加,相应共混物的拉伸强度和断裂伸长率的下降减缓;相应共混物的分解温度得到较大的提高;抗氧剂的加入,能进一步提高共混物的热氧稳定性.     

线形低密度聚乙烯／废胶粉热塑弹性体动态硫化性能研究

利用动态硫化法制备了线形低密度聚乙烯(LLDPE)/废胶粉(GTR)热塑弹性体。重点研究了两种交联剂:硫和过氧化二异丙苯(DCP)对共混物性能的影响。加入一定量的苯乙烯-丁二烯-苯乙烯(SBS)共聚物作为增容剂。结果表明,经过DCP动态硫化后的共混物的力学性能比简单共混的共混物有明显的提高,而加入硫磺体系对共混物力学性能影响不大甚至有所下降。通过红外光谱、热分析(DSC)和扫描电镜(SEM)对共混物的热行为和表面形态研究表明,加入DCP交联剂使LLDPE、SBS和胶粉之间发生了交联反应,从而增加了胶粉颗粒与LLDPE间的界面相容性,使其热塑性弹性体的力学性能得以提高。     

亚临界水和高剪切应力对SBR基轮胎胶脱硫反应的影响

在轮胎胶粉(GTR)与三元乙丙橡胶(EPDM)熔融挤出过程中采用亚临界水(一种倾向性的定义为沸点以上,临界点以下的水称为亚临界水)和提高螺杆转速的复合诱导脱硫方法,研究了温度、压力、螺杆转速及促进剂品种对脱硫共混物凝胶含量、门尼黏度、溶胶红外光谱及脱硫共混物共混丁苯橡胶再硫化材料((DGTR/EPDM)/SBR)力学性能的影响。结果表明:亚临界水作为一种溶剂和反应性介质能够促进脱硫反应,提高交联键发生断裂的选择性,抑止氧化降解副反应,降低脱硫产物的凝胶含量和凝胶颗粒尺寸并明显提高脱硫共混物共混丁苯橡胶再硫化材料的力学性能;促进剂过氧化物H2O2、烷基酚多硫化物450或H2O2/450具有明显的促进脱硫反应的作用。在最佳亚临界水挤出反应条件下(200℃,1.6MPa和1000rpm),当以H2O2/450为复合促进剂时,脱硫共混物共混丁苯橡胶再硫化材料的拉伸强度和断裂伸长率分别达到了20.5MPa和716%。     

改性TiO2纳米粒子对聚丙烯抗紫外光老化及结晶性能的影响

用苯乙烯-丙烯酸丁酯乳液共聚物包覆纳米TiO2,制备出P(St-BA)/TiO2复合粒子.利用扫描电子显微镜、偏光显微镜、差示扫描量热分析法和力学性能测试,研究复合纳米粒子对聚丙烯(PP)的结晶行为、力学性能和抗紫外光老化性能的影响.结果表明,P(St-BA)/TiO2复合纳米粒子能使PP的球晶尺寸得到细化,更好地分散在基体树脂中.改性TiO2纳米粒子能有效提高PP的力学性能和抗紫外光老化性能,PP的断裂伸长率从89%提高到106%;缺口冲击强度从2.6 KJ/m2提高到了3.4KJ/m2.经紫外光老化500h后,断裂伸长率保持率为31%,PP仅为8%;老化后缺口冲击强度保持率为65%,PP为31%.     

聚丙烯／顺丁橡胶动态硫化增韧的研究

研究了在聚丙烯(pp)与顺丁橡胶(BR)共混过程中加入橡胶硫化剂使共混体系中橡胶相动态硫化交联。研究结果表明,采用动态硫化法可提高共混物的冲击强度和拉伸强度。借助于SEM和DMA,证实了动态硫化使PP/BR共混体系具有相界面粘结良好的多相结构,改善了两相相容性。探讨了动态硫化增韧的机理。     

EPDM受热氧化与动态流变行为

采用动态流变学方法研究了三元乙丙橡胶(EPDM)高温氧化与动态粘弹响应之间的关系.在熔体状态下,EPDM的动态粘弹行为随温度升高而改变,呈现出非均相结构的流变响应特征;加入复合抗氧剂后,EPDM在一定的时间范围内,呈现均相体系的流变响应特征.这些结果表明,流变响应特征的改变与受热导致EPDM熔体氧化进而引起结构的改变密切相关.低频区域粘弹函数对EPDM结构变化具有敏感响应,2 0 0～2 2 0℃可明显观察到受热氧化导致EPDM结构的生成.     

乙丙橡胶/聚丙烯共混体系的界面相互渗透

本文用X射线衍射仪、差热分析仪、动态力学扭摆仪和测定有效网链密度等方法,研究了乙丙橡胶/聚丙烯(EPDM/PP)共混体系中PP的非晶部分和EPDM的相互渗透。EPDM和PP不具有互溶性,但PP的非晶部分和EPDM两相界面处有较强的相互渗透,即部分互容性。有效链密度和性能间关系的数据表明,共混体系不一定存在硫化胶那样的对应关系。     

Study on Dynamic Vulcanized EPDM/PP Thermoplastic Elastomer

Based upon the THE,HAAK RHEOCORD 90 and Wx-ray observation,a study was made on the structure and property of ethylene-propylene-ethlidene norborene (EPDM)/polyprolene (PP) blending systems ,and the experimental results were fully explained. (1) The effect of Mooney viscosity (ML)of EPDM、 melt flow rate(MFR) of peroxide(DCP) and mixing steps on mechanical properties of EPDM/PP blends was studied. The results showed that the mechanical and process properties of EPDM?PP thermoplastic elastomers were better using EPDM with the ML of 60 and PP with MFR of 7.5g/10min as matrix,DCP with the content of 1.2 per cent with the help of twostep curing process at the temperature of 170-175 ℃.     

Preparation of polypropylene/ethylene‐propylene‐diene terpolymer/nitrile rubber ternary thermoplastics vulcanizates with good mechanical properties and oil resistance by core‐shell dynamic vulcanization

As the most successful commercialized thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs), polypropylene (PP)/ethylene propylene rubber (EPDM) TPVs exhibit poor oil resistance. In this work, we prepared PP/EPDM/butadiene acrylonitrile rubber (NBR) ternary TPVs with good oil resistance using core‐shell dynamic vulcanization. According to the theoretical analysis of the spreading coefficient and the transmission electron microscopy results, the rubber phases exhibited a special core‐shell structure, in which the cross‐linkedNBR‐core was encapsulated by the EPDM‐shell. The core‐shell structure effectively improved the interfacial compatibility between PP and NBR phase as the EPDM‐shell could avoid the direct contact of them, thus improving the mechanical properties of the TPVs. For example, the PP/EPDM/NBR (40/30/30) ternary TPV showed enhanced tensile strength of 12.57 MPa, compared with 10.71 MPa of PP/EPDM (40/60) TPV and 11.11 MPa of PP/NBR (40/60) TPV, respectively. Moreover, the oil resistance of the TPVs was also improved. Compared with PP/EPDM TPV, the change rates in mass, volume, tensile strength and elongation at break of PP/EPDM/NBR TPV after oil immersion decreased by 42.18%, 48.69%, 52.68% and 28.77%, respectively.     

Crystallization and mechanical properties of basalt fiber-reinforced polypropylene composites with different elastomers

In this study, composites based on polypropylene (PP), basalt fiber (BF), polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (MAPP) and different elastomers were manufactured by extrusion compounding and injection molding. The main focus of this study was to comparatively investigate the effect of three kinds of elastomers (ethylene–propylene–diene monomer (EPDM), polyethylene–octene (POE) and ethylene–vinyl–acetate (EVA)) on non-isothermal crystallization and mechanical properties of the composites with various BF contents. The tensile test results showed that BF had a reinforcing effect on PP resin, and the addition of MAPP further improved the tensile properties by the enhancement of PP/BF interfacial bonding. Among the elastomers, EPDM was more effective in improving the tensile strength and tensile modulus, while POE significantly toughened the impact strength. Micrographs of scanning electron microscope on the impact fracture surfaces indicated a good dispersion by the addition of POE and EPDM, while some agglomerations were observed in the presence of EVA. The non-isothermal crystallization kinetics were investigated based on Avrami and Mo equations at six different cooling rates by using differential scanning calorimetry. Micrographic images of polarized optical microscopy showed that the spherulite size of PP reduced in the presence of EPDM and EVA.     

Prediction models for the key mechanical properties of EPDM/PP blends as affected by processing parameters and their correlation with stress relaxation and phase morphologies

The optimum condition of processing parameters (mixing temperature, rotor speed, fill factor, and blend ratio) and prediction models for the best key mechanical properties of ethylene propylene diene terpolymer/polypropylene thermoplastic vulcanizates (EPDM/PP TPVs) was investigated by using the Taguchi's optimization technique and data analysis. The results reveal that all of the processing parameters affected significantly the mechanical properties of the EPDM/PP TPVs, but specifically the blend ratio contributed more than 90% in effect size on tensile strength and tension set. There were three main factors, the mixing temperature, the fill factor, and the blend ratio, influencing the elongation at break. Furthermore, the mathematic models were effective and reliable in predicting the properties of TPVs. The correlation of mechanical properties, stress relaxation, and phase morphologies of the TPVs prepared from the predicted models was also investigated. It can be summarized that the morphological structure and stress relaxation of the TPVs were strongly governed by the EPDM content in the blend ratio. That is, the higher the EPDM content, the better phase morphology having smaller size of the vulcanized EPDM particles distributed in the PP matrix and the higher rate of stress relaxation. Moreover, these two properties were then principally pushing the mechanical characteristics of the EPDM/PP TPVs. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dynamically Photocrosslinking of Polypropylene／EPDM Blends as a Thermoplastic Elastomer

The mechanical properties and the crystal morphological structures of the dynamically photocrosslinked polypropylene (PP)/ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer (EPDM) blends have been studied by means of mechanical tests, wide-angle X-ray diffraction(WAXD), and differential scanning calorimetry(DSC). The dynamically photocrosslinking of the PP/EPDM blends can improve the mechanical properties considerably, especially the notched Izod impact strength at low temperatures. The data obtained from the mechanical tests show that the notched Izod impact strength of the dynamically photocrosslinked sample with 30% EPDM at -20℃ is about six times that of the uncrosslinked sample with the same EPDM component. The results from the gel content, the results of WAXD, and the DSC measurements reveal the enhanced mechanism of the impact strength for the dynamically photocrosslinked PP/EPDM blends as follows: (1) There exists the crosslinking of the EPDM phase in the photocrosslinked PP/EPDM blends ; (2) The β-type crystal structureof PP is formed and the content of α-type crystal decreases with increasing the EPDM component; (3) The graft copolymer of PP-g-EPDM is formed at the interface between the PP and EPDM components. All the above changes of the crystal morphological structures are favorable for increasing the compatibility and enhancing the toughness of the PP/EPDM blends at low temperatures.     

Reactive melt blends of thermoplastic polyolefins,MAH‐g‐PP and nylon 6

Reactive melt blends of an ethylene‐propylene‐diene terpolymer (EPDM) based thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (MAH‐g‐PP), and nylon 6 were prepared in a single screw extruder and evaluated in terms of morphological, rheological, thermal, dynamic mechanical, and mechanical properties of the blends. It was found that MAH‐g‐PP‐co‐nylon 6 copolymers were in situ formed and acted as effective compatibilizers for polypropylene (PP) and nylon 6. Phase separation of PP and EPDM in TPE increased with the addition and increasing amount of MAH‐g‐PP and nylon 6, leading to decreased glass transition temperature (T_g) of TPE and increased crystalline melting temperature (T_m) of PP. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effect of β-phase on the fracture behavior of dynamically vulcanized PP/EPDM blends studied by the essential work of fracture approach

The effect of β phase polypropylene (PP), induced by β-nucleating agent (β-NA), on the fracture behavior in dynamically vulcanized thermoplastic elastomers (TPVs) based on dynamically vulcanized PP/ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) blend was studied. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) were employed to study the melting behavior and crystalline structures, and the results indicated that the β-NA induced β phase of PP effectively in TPVs. With the increasing dosage of the β-NA incorporated in, the content of β phase increased while the total crystallinity of the blend kept constant. The fracture behavior of the TPVs with different β phase content was studied with double edge notched tensile loaded specimens (DENT) using the essential work of fracture (EWF) approach. The specific essential work of fracture (w_e) increased with the increasing of β phase content, indicating that the presence of β phase could effectively enhance the fracture toughness of TPVs.     

A polymer network based on thermoplastic polyurethane and ethylene-propylene-diene elastomer via melt blending: morphology, mechanical properties, and rheology

Blends of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and ethylene-propylene-diene elastomer (EPDM) were prepared via a melt blending, and morphology, mechanical properties, and rheology were studied. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs demonstrated that a network of EPDM domain was formed in TPU matrix, and became finer and more perfect with addition of 8 wt% EPDM into TPU. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) investigation indicated that EPDM was thermodynamically miscible with the soft segments of TPU and incompatible with the hard segments. The formation of the network was resulted from the competition of compatible and incompatible segments of TPU with EPDM. The tensile strength and elongation at break achieved a significant improvement with addition of EPDM, and obtained the optimum values of 39.21 MPa and 2659%, respectively, when EPDM content was 8 wt%. PEO-g-MA as a compatibilizer was employed to improve the compatibilization between EPDM and the hard segments of EPDM, and consequently, the network became finer and more perfect. The evaluation of rheological properties revealed that the introduction of EPDM into TPU resulted in a reduction of the viscosity at high shear rate and a decrease of the flow activation energy; thus the processability of the blends was improved.