Abstract
The molecular dimensions in dilute solution and the linear viscoelastic melt properties of a series of linear ethylene/1-hexene random copolymers with variable short chain branching content are reported. The results obtained from size exclusion chromatography and viscosimetry in dilute solution show a molecular contraction as the branching level increases. Additionally, a clear dependence of the Newtonian viscosity with the short chain branching content at T = 463 K is obtained. Both experimental observations are in agreement with previous experimental results found in ethylene/α-olefin copolymers, but more interestingly with recent full atomistic simulations made in our group in this type of macromolecular systems. The dependences observed can be related to the changes observed in the macromolecular conformational features and also in the equilibration entanglement time and the molecular weight between entanglements as the number of short chain branches increases.
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