Crystallization behavior and resultant crystalline structure of a series of temperature-rising elu-tion-fractionated specimen of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst-synthesized propylene-ethylene random co-polymer were studied b...Crystallization behavior and resultant crystalline structure of a series of temperature-rising elu-tion-fractionated specimen of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst-synthesized propylene-ethylene random co-polymer were studied by DSC, WAXD and AFM. The experimental results indicate that both crystalliza-tion temperature and propylene sequence length exhibit great influence on the crystallization behavior and crystalline structure of the copolymer. It was found that the ethylene co-monomers acting as point defects inserted into the polypropylene chains play an important role in the formation of γ-iPP. As the co-monomer content increases, the crystallizable sequence length of iPP decreases, which produces an appropriate condition for its γ crystallization. At the same time, the existence of chain defects leads to a lower crystallinity of the copolymer and imperfection of the resultant crystals. For each individual sample with certain propylene sequence length or ethylene content, the increment of γ-iPP crystal content with increasing crystallization temperature demonstrates that higher crystallization tempera-ture is in favor of the γ-iPP crystallization. Pure γ-iPP crystals have been got in samples with propylene sequence length lower than 21 under suitable crystallization conditions.展开更多
基金the Outstanding Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China (Grant No 20425414)National Natural Science Foundations of China (Grant Nos. 50521302, 20423003, 20574079,and 20604031)State "973" Pro-grams from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No.2003CB615602)
文摘Crystallization behavior and resultant crystalline structure of a series of temperature-rising elu-tion-fractionated specimen of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst-synthesized propylene-ethylene random co-polymer were studied by DSC, WAXD and AFM. The experimental results indicate that both crystalliza-tion temperature and propylene sequence length exhibit great influence on the crystallization behavior and crystalline structure of the copolymer. It was found that the ethylene co-monomers acting as point defects inserted into the polypropylene chains play an important role in the formation of γ-iPP. As the co-monomer content increases, the crystallizable sequence length of iPP decreases, which produces an appropriate condition for its γ crystallization. At the same time, the existence of chain defects leads to a lower crystallinity of the copolymer and imperfection of the resultant crystals. For each individual sample with certain propylene sequence length or ethylene content, the increment of γ-iPP crystal content with increasing crystallization temperature demonstrates that higher crystallization tempera-ture is in favor of the γ-iPP crystallization. Pure γ-iPP crystals have been got in samples with propylene sequence length lower than 21 under suitable crystallization conditions.
