Ethylene/silane copolymers prepared with a metallocene catalyst as polymeric additives in polyethylene/aluminum trihydroxide composites |
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Authors: | S. Lipponen,J. Sepp l |
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Affiliation: | S. Lipponen,J. Seppälä |
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Abstract: | Metallocene catalyst based polyethylene‐co‐7‐octenyldimethyl phenyl silane (PE/Si? Ph ) and its post‐treated functional forms PE/Si? X ( X = Cl , F , OCH3 , OCH2CH3 ) were used as additives in PE/ATH composites. The impact strength of the composites was significantly increased after a small addition (0.5–3.0 wt %) of the functionalized form of the copolymer (PE/Si? X ). The thermal study of the composites gave us more information about the additive's behavior at the filler/matrix interphase and correlation to the mechanical properties was found. According to this thermal data, the original untreated form of PE/Si? Ph also seemed to interact weakly with the ATH‐filler particles, which was seen in an altered interphase at the filler/matrix boundary layer. The interaction was not strong enough to improve the impact strength of composites but an increase was observed in some other mechanical properties (tensile stress, yield strain). © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 43: 5597–5608, 2005 |
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Keywords: | aluminium trihydroxide composites metallocene polyethylene |
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