Citation: Yan-hu Xue, Yan-hui Wang, Yan-di Fan, He-ran Yang, Tao Tang, Shu-qin Bo, Xiang-ling Ji. Microstructure Characterization of Short-chain Branching Polyethylene with Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Successive Self-nucleation/Annealing Thermal Fractionation[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2014, 32(6): 751-757. doi: 10.1007/s10118-014-1444-7 shu

Microstructure Characterization of Short-chain Branching Polyethylene with Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Successive Self-nucleation/Annealing Thermal Fractionation

Yan-hu Xue ^1,2,3 ,
Yan-hui Wang ⁴ ,
Yan-di Fan ⁴ ,
He-ran Yang ⁴ ,
Tao Tang ⁴ ,
Shu-qin Bo ⁴ ,
Xiang-ling Ji ^4,,

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1. State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
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2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
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State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China

Corresponding author: Xiang-ling Ji,
Received Date: 9 September 2013
Revised Date: 29 October 2013

Fund Project: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 20734006 and 50921062).

A series of the copolymers of ethylene with 1-hexene (M1M9) synthesized by metallocene catalyst Et[Ind]2ZrCl2/MAO was studied by differential scanning calorimetry and successive self-nucleation and annealing (SSA) thermal fractionation. The distribution of methylene sequence length (MSL) in the different copolymers was determined using the SSA method. The comonomer contents of samples M4 and M5 are 2.04 mol% and 2.78 mol%, respectively. Both M4 and M5 have low comonomer content and their MSL distribution profiles exhibit a monotonous increase trend with their MSL. The longest MSL of M5 is 167, and its corresponding molar percent is 43.95%, which is higher than that of M4. Moreover, the melting temperature (Tm) of M5 is also higher than that of M4. The comonomer contents of samples M7, M8, and M9 are 8.73 mol%, 14.18 mol% and 15.05 mol%, respectively. M7, M8, and M9 have high comonomer contents, and their MSL distribution profiles display unimodality. M7 has a lower peak value of 33 and a narrow MSL distribution, resulting in a Tm lower than that of M8 and M9. The MSL and its distribution are also key points that influence the melting behavior of copolymers. Sometimes, MSL and its distribution of copolymers have a greater impact on it than the total comonomer contents, which is different from traditional views.
- Polyethylene,
- Methylene sequence length(MSL),
- Microstructure,
- successive self-nucleation and annealing (SSA),
- SCB
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