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A brief review of reactive processing of polyolefins, which are the most widely used polymers today, is given in this paper from the role of flow field in processing and the characterization of the modified chain topologies. The materials are mainly focused on polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polyolefin elastomer (POE) here. Aspects of reactions, coupling/crosslinking and scission are discussed both in terms of the mechanism and kinetics under different flow conditions.
From W. Yu 1 | J. Liu 1 | C. Zhou 1
1Advanced Rheology Institute, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PRC
(Received 11.10.2011; accepted 15.01.2012)
Appeared in International Polymer Processing 2012/03, Page 286-289
DOI: 10.3139/217.2431
Direct link: http://www.polymer-process.com/IPP2431
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