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Melt spinning of metallocene catalyzed polypropylenes. II. As‐spun filament structure and properties
Author(s) -
Bond Eric Bryan,
Spruiell Joseph E.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.2182
Subject(s) - ultimate tensile strength , spinning , materials science , tacticity , composite material , birefringence , protein filament , elongation , melt spinning , polypropylene , fiber , polymer chemistry , polymerization , polymer , optics , physics
The melt spinning of metallocene catalyzed isotactic polypropylene (miPP) resins was investigated. The as‐spun filament properties from six miPP resins were studied with melt flow rates (MFR) between 10 and 100, and a Ziegler–Natta catalyzed isotactic polypropylene (zniPP) resin with a MFR of 35 was studied for a comparison. Generally, as the molecular weight increased the filament density increased, the birefringence decreased, the tensile strength decreased, and the elongation to break increased. As the spinning speed increased, the density, birefringence, tensile strength, and crystalline and noncrystalline orientation functions generally increased. However, the low MFR miPP and the zniPP resin had decreases in the birefringence and tensile strength with an increase of the spinning speed. The miPP resins were found to have breaking tensile strengths up to 50% higher than the zniPP resin at similar spinning speeds. The observed fiber properties were explained based on the nature and orientation of noncrystalline portions of the fibers. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 82: 3237–3247, 2001