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Modeling of light scattering and haze in semicrystalline polymers

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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 58, Issue 13, Pages 1787-1795

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pol.20200027

Keywords

crystalline structure; haze; model calculations; optical properties; prediction; volume scattering

Funding

  1. National Research, Development and Innovation Fund [TUDFO/51757/2019-ITM]
  2. Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  3. New National Excellence Program [UNKP-19-4-BME-419]

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This article reports a new model approach for the description of light scattering in semicrystalline polymers, to describe more precisely the influence of supermolecular structure on the optical properties. This is the first study in which light scattering of polymer films has been modeled using exact Mie scattering theory of radially anisotropic spheres. As a model material a well-known polymer, isotactic polypropylene (iPP) was used. Samples were prepared with different sample thicknesses and crystalline structures in order to identify the key parameters of light scattering in polycrystalline polymeric systems. Validation haze measurements were carried out with a spectrophotometer equipped with a 150 mm snap-in integrating sphere. It was found that the optical properties of the polycrystalline sample can be described using multiple light scattering on these scattering centers. Good agreement was found between the simulated and experimentally measured haze values which proves the reliability and applicability of our new approach.

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