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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 111, Issue 3, Pages 1268-1277Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.29161
Keywords
linear low-density polyethylene; nonionic surfactant; graft copolymers; H-1-NMR
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- The National Natural Science Foundation of China [50390090]
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Copolymers of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) grafted with two novel nonionic surfactants, acrylic glycerol monostearate ester (AGMS) and acrylic polyoxyethylenesorbitan monooleate ester (ATW-EEN80), containing hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups and 1-olefin double bond were prepared by using a plasticorder at 190 degrees C. To evaluate the grafting degree, two different approaches based on H-1-NMR data were proposed, and FTIR calibration was showed to validate these methods. The rheological response of the molten polymers, determined under dynamic shear flow at small-amplitude oscillations, indicated that crosslinking formation of the chains could be decreased with increasing the monomer concentration. Their thermal behavior was studied by DSC and polarization microscope (PLM): The crystallization temperature (T-C) of grafted LLDPE shifted to higher temperature compared with neat LLDPE because the grafted chains acted as nucleating agents. Water and glycerol were used to calculate the surface free energy of grafted LLDPE films. The results indicated that the novel polyoxyethylene surfactant ATWEEN80 could greatly improve the hydrophilicity of LLDPE and the surface free energy varied from 33 mN/m of neat LLDPE to 106 mN/m of the grafted LLDPE film. (c) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 111: 1268-1277, 2009
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