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Yao X, Shi Y, Tang Y, Luo C, Hou L, Ren M, Zheng C, Liu LZ. CRYSTAF, DSC and SAXS Study of the Co-Crystallization, Phase Separation and Lamellar Packing of the Blends with Different Polyethylenes. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:polym15081940. [PMID: 37112087 PMCID: PMC10144434 DOI: 10.3390/polym15081940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
Abstract
The crystallization of polyethylene (PE) blends is a highly complex process, owing to the significant differences in crystallizability of the various PE components and the varying PE sequence distributions resulting from short- or long-chain branching. In this study, we examined both the resins and their blends through crystallization analysis fractionation (CRYSTAF) to understand the PE sequence distribution and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to investigate the non-isothermal crystallization behavior of the bulk materials. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was utilized to study the crystal packing structure. The results showed that the PE molecules in the blends crystallize at different rates during cooling, resulting in a complicated crystallization behavior characterized by nucleation, co-crystallization, and fractionation. We compared these behaviors to those of reference immiscible blends and found that the extent of the differences is related to the disparity in crystallizability between components. Furthermore, the lamellar packing of the blends is closely associated with their crystallization behaviors, and the crystalline structure varies significantly depending on the components' compositions. Specifically, the lamellar packing of the HDPE/LLDPE and HDPE/LDPE blends is similar to that of the HDPE component owing to its strong crystallizability, while the lamellar packing of the LLDPE/LDPE blend is approximately an average of the two neat components.
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- Xuerong Yao
- SINOPEC (Beijing) Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China
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- Advanced Manufacturing Institute of Polymer Industry, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
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- SINOPEC (Beijing) Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China
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- SINOPEC (Beijing) Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China
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- SINOPEC (Beijing) Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China
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- SINOPEC (Beijing) Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China
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- SINOPEC (Beijing) Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China
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- Advanced Manufacturing Institute of Polymer Industry, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
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Wang Z, Dong X, Cavallo D, Wang D, Müller AJ. Peculiar self‐nucleation behavior of a polybutene‐1/ethylene random copolymer. POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pcr2.10201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Zefan Wang
- Beijing National laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Beijing National laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry University of Genova Genova Italy
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- Beijing National laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- POLYMAT and Department of Polymers and Advanced Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU Donostia‐San Sebastián Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science Bilbao Spain
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Ren M, Chen X, Sang Y, Alamo RG. Comparative Effects on Recrystallization of Melt-Memory and Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation in Ziegler–Natta and Metallocene Ethylene Copolymers with Bimodal Comonomer Composition Distribution. Ind Eng Chem Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c03647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Minqiao Ren
- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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Affiliation(s)
- Leire Sangroniz
- POLYMAT and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genova, via Dodecaneso, 31, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- POLYMAT and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- IKERBASQUE - Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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Li L, Li T, Arras MM, Bonnesen PV, Peng X, Li W, Hong K. Chain arrangements of selectively deuterated poly(ε-caprolactone) copolymers as revealed by neutron scattering. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Liu X, Wang Y, Wang Z, Cavallo D, Müller AJ, Zhu P, Zhao Y, Dong X, Wang D. The origin of memory effects in the crystallization of polyamides: Role of hydrogen bonding. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.122117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Iyer K, Margossian M, Muthukumar M. Interlude of metastability in the melting of polymer crystals. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:124903. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5114645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Kiran Iyer
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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Alternating crystalline lamellar structures from thermodynamically miscible poly(ε-caprolactone) H/D blends. POLYMER 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.05.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Wang Z, Dong X, Cavallo D, Müller AJ, Wang D. Promotion of Self-Nucleation with Latent Form I Nuclei in Polybutene-1 and Its Copolymer. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Zefan Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genova, via Dodecaneso, 31-16146 Genova, Italy
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- POLYMAT and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque
Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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López-Barrón CR, Brant P, Shivokhin M, Lu J, Kang S, Throckmorton JA, Mouton T, Pham T, Savage RC. Long-Chain Hyperbranched Comb Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Microstructure, Rheology, and Thermal Behavior. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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Chen X, López-Barrón C, Zeng Y, Alamo RG. Concentration fluctuations in the early stages of LLPS and partial dissolution of melt-memory in broadly distributed ethylene copolymers. POLYMER 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2018.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Qiu J, Mongcopa KI, Han R, López-Barrón CR, Robertson ML, Krishnamoorti R. Thermodynamic Interactions in a Model Polydiene/Polyolefin Blend Based on 1,2-Polybutadiene. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jialin Qiu
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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