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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 132, Issue 28, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/app.42222
Keywords
polyolefins; properties and characterization; structure-property relations
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- SCG Chemical Co., Ltd.
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Long chain branching (LCB) in polyethylene is one of the key microstructures that controls processing and final properties. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) with viscometer (IV) and/or light scattering (LS) has been intensely used to quantify LCB. The widespread method to quantify LCB from GPC with IV or LS is the method of LCB frequency (LCBf) based on the Zimm-Stockmayer (ZS) random branching model. In this work, the conventional approach was compared with the recently developed method, called gpcBR. The comparison of the sensitivity of both methods is made on highly branched polymer, that is, various grades of commercial LDPE and also on polymer with very low level of LCB, that is, a commercial HDPE with no LCB, converted into several branched test samples of gradually increasing LCB by multiple extrusion. Finally, the linkages of LCB quantities from both methods to the rheological data and processing properties are illustrated. The new gpcBR index can access lower LCB level and shows obviously better relationship with both rheological data and processing properties than LCBf from the conventional ZS model. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015, 132, 42222.
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