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Article: Maleic anhydride/styrene melt grafting and crosslinking onto ethylene-octene copolymer.(Technical report)
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- Polymer Engineering and Science
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
Polyolefin elastomer (POE) is ethylene-octene copolymer developed using a metallocene catalyst by Dow Chemical. POE is characterized by narrow molecular weight distribution and homogeneous comonomer distribution. It has fast mixing and better dispersion properties compared with conventional ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) and ethylene-propylene copolymer (EP) (1), (2). Its applications mainly focus on modifying nonpolar polymers. Recently, POE can also be functionalized and/or graft modified by some unsaturated low molecular compounds containing polar functional groups (3-6). This makes it widely using in modifying polar polymers. ...