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An Overview of Important Microstructural Distributions for Polyolefin Analysis
Author(s) -
Soares João B.P.
Publication year - 2007
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/masy.200751101
Subject(s) - polyolefin , microstructure , characterization (materials science) , materials science , polymer science , polymer , biochemical engineering , process engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , engineering , layer (electronics)
Summary: Polyolefins with complex microstructures are becoming increasingly common in academic and industrial applications. Polyolefin analytical techniques are evolving to provide a more detailed picture of these microstructures, with the development and improvement of hyphenated‐techniques and cross‐fractionation methods. These modern analytical techniques provide a wealth of information on polyolefin microstructure and, despite being extremely useful, they can also be hard to interpret without the help of mathematical models that link polymerization kinetics to chain microstructure and polymer characterization results. In this paper we review some of the most important distributions for polyolefin microstructure and derive a few new expressions that help understand the results obtained with several polyolefin characterization techniques.