Journal
POLYMER
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 118-124Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.07.019
Keywords
Living coordination polymerization; Olefin block copolymer; Thermoplastic elastomer
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB606001]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1462115]
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The elastomeric performance of a series of ethylene/1-octene random and block copolymers prepared from living coordination polymerization was studied in this work. All the polymer samples exhibited good toughness. The living random copolymers had better elasticity than commercial metallocene random copolymers. The strain recovery of the living random copolymers was about 90% with an applied strain up to 800%. It was demonstrated that the copolymer elasticity was mainly determined by their block structure, with little influence by their molecular weight. It was also found that either too high or too low content of hard-block content deteriorated the copolymer elastomeric behavior. The diblock copolymer having about 42 wt% hard block content (LBC1) gave the best elasticity among the studied block copolymers and retained the strain recovery about 80% under the applied stain of 600%. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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