Structure and properties of impact copolymer polypropylene. I. Chain structure.pdf

Structure and Properties of Impact Copolymer Polypropylene. I. Chain Structure CAI HONGJUN,1 LUO XIAOLIE,1 MA DEZHU,1 WANG JIANMIN,2 TAN HONGSHENG2 1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, People’s Republic of China 2 Institute of Resin Processing Application, Qilu Petrochemical Corp., Zibo, Shandong, 255400, People’s Republic of China Received 10 October 1997; accepted 4 June 1998 ABSTRACT: In this work, impact copolymer polypropylene (ICPP) was fractionated into 4 fractions. ICPP and the 4 fractions were studied using Fourier transform infrared and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance analysis. The results demonstrate that fraction A is ethylene–propylene rubber, fraction B is ethylene–propylene (EP) segmented copoly- mer, fraction C is ethylene–propylene block copolymer, and fraction D is polypropylene with a few ethylene monomers in the chain. The differences in properties between different impact copolymer polypropylenes should be due to their fractions’ differences in composition and chain sequence structure. © 1999 John Wiley Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 71: 93–101, 1999 Key words: impact copolymer polypropylene; fraction; chain structure; composition INTRODUCTION mers with low ethylene content using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique and cali- Toughened polypropylene (PP) is an important brated an infrared (IR) method with it as stan- member of the PP family. The incentive to pre- dard.6 Cheng and Lee determined the assign- pare it lies in the poor low-temperat