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Effect of short chain branching in molecular dimensions and Newtonian viscosity of ethylene/1-hexene copolymers: matching conformational and rheological experimental properties and atomistic simulations

verfasst von: Juan F. Vega, Javier Ramos, Javier Martínez-Salazar

Erschienen in: Rheologica Acta | Ausgabe 1/2014

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The molecular dimensions in dilute solution and the linear viscoelastic melt properties of a series of linear ethylene/1-hexene random copolymers with variable short chain branching content are reported. The results obtained from size exclusion chromatography and viscosimetry in dilute solution show a molecular contraction as the branching level increases. Additionally, a clear dependence of the Newtonian viscosity with the short chain branching content at T = 463 K is obtained. Both experimental observations are in agreement with previous experimental results found in ethylene/α-olefin copolymers, but more interestingly with recent full atomistic simulations made in our group in this type of macromolecular systems. The dependences observed can be related to the changes observed in the macromolecular conformational features and also in the equilibration entanglement time and the molecular weight between entanglements as the number of short chain branches increases.

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Titel: Effect of short chain branching in molecular dimensions and Newtonian viscosity of ethylene/1-hexene copolymers: matching conformational and rheological experimental properties and atomistic simulations
verfasst von: Juan F. Vega
Javier Ramos
Javier Martínez-Salazar
Publikationsdatum: 01.01.2014
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: Rheologica Acta / Ausgabe 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0035-4511
Elektronische ISSN: 1435-1528
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-013-0735-1

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