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Tailor‐made polymers through selective modification
Author(s) -
Neißl Wolfgang,
Gahleitner Markus
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3900(200205)181:1<177::aid-masy177>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - crystallinity , compounding , materials science , polymer science , polypropylene , polymer , sophistication , commodity , nanotechnology , composite material , business , social science , finance , sociology
Despite being generally regarded as “mass materials” without a high degree of sophistication in public, plastics are revolutionizing our life with new innovations on a day‐to‐day basis. While stunning developments like self‐healing polymers or high‐performance nanocomposites are still in a basic phase of their development, recent years have seen “commodity” materials like polyolefins evolving into performance polymers with a variety of technically demanding applications. This has become possible through a selective modification of the material properties on all structural and productional levels: Catalyst and chain structure, copolymerisation and phase morphology, conventional and reactive compounding, processing and crystallinity. A state‐of‐art review and an outlook on future developments for polyolefins in general, but polypropylene in particular, is given.