The thermo-oxidative degradation of polyolefines—Part 10. Correlation between the formation of carboxyl groups and scission in the oxidation of polyethylene in the melt phase |
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Authors: | M Iring F Tüdős Zs Fodor T Kelen |
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Institution: | Central Research Institute for Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary |
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Abstract: | Films of low density polyethylene have been degraded under an oxygen atmosphere at temperatures above the semicrystalline melting point. Time, conversion and temperature dependence of carboxyl group formation and chain scission have been studied. After induction periods we found linear dependences both in function of time and conversion. One third of absorbed oxygen forms carboxyl groups and the absorption of 3·57 mmol oxygen per monomer unit is needed for one chain scission. Maximum rates of carboxyl formation and chain scission have Arrhenius temperature dependence with 33·5 kcal/mole activation energy. The number of carboxyl groups and chain scissions are always practically the same; we assume that the isomerisation of secondary alkyl peroxy radicals simultaneously causes chain scission and carboxyl formation. |
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