PROPYLENE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS HAVING IMPROVED IMPACT STRENGTH
    1.
    发明公开
    PROPYLENE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS HAVING IMPROVED IMPACT STRENGTH 失效
    具有改善的冲击强度的丙烯聚合物组合物

    公开(公告)号:EP0835285A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-04-15

    申请号:EP96923540.0

    申请日:1996-06-28

    IPC分类号: C08L23 C08L51

    摘要: Crystalline propylene polymer compositions having improved impact strength and improved clarity are disclosed. The composition is prepared by melt blending a propylene polymer, e.g., polypropylene, and from about 1 to 35 wt.% of an elastomeric interpolymer of a C4 to C8 isomonoolefin, e.g., isobutylene, and a para-alkystyrene comonomer, e.g., para-methylstyrene. The interpolymer preferably contains a benzylic functional group such as halogen (bromine). The composition may also contain from about 0.5 to 15 wt.% of the amide reaction product of an organic acid-grafted propylene polymer, e.g., maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene, and a polyfunctional primary amine.

    BIMODALIZATION OF POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION
    6.
    发明授权
    BIMODALIZATION OF POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION 失效
    双峰分子量分布的聚合物

    公开(公告)号:EP0828761B1

    公开(公告)日:2000-07-12

    申请号:EP96920361.1

    申请日:1996-05-23

    IPC分类号: C08F8/00

    摘要: The present invention provides a post-polymerization process for modifying the molecular weight distribution of a polymer having a monomodal molecular weight distribution, which polymer normally exhibits a decrease in molecular weight when subjected to high shear mixing in the presence of a free radical initiator, to produce a polymer having a bimodal molecular weight distribution. The process comprises: (a) heating a mixture of the polymer, a polyunsaturated crosslinking agent and, optionally, a free radical initiator, to form a uniform mixture; and (b) subjecting said mixture to high shear mixing conditions until a polymer having a bimodal molecular weight distribution is obtained. In the more preferred embodiment, the shear mixing is conducted in the presence of a free radical initiator such as an organic peroxide and the crosslinking agent is a difunctional compound containing diallyl, divinyl or diethylenic unsaturation. The process results in the development of polymers having a bimodal molecular weight distribution as a consequence of the coupling of some of the free radically degraded polymer chains added through the unsaturated functionality of the crosslinking agent. The high molecular weight species in the bimodal distribution lends a higher melt strength to the polymer and the lower molecular weight species imparts improved processing and melt flow properties.