Abstract
Here we report the melting and isothermal crystallization behavior of two sets of fractions obtained from a film-grade metallocene catalyzed ethylene-1-hexene resin with enhanced mechanical properties. One set of fractions was obtained by molecular weight fractionation, the second set was obtained fractionating by content of 1-hexene. The melting behavior, crystallization kinetics and supermolecular morphology of the fractions are analyzed in reference to the behavior of model systems with uniform inter-chain branching content and a random intra-chain distribution. While melting and crystallization kinetics of molecular weight fractions conforms to the bivariate (molecular weight-comonomer content) distribution of the original copolymer, the behavior of 1-hexene compositional fractions indicate a blockier branching distribution in the highly branched high molar mass fractions. Major differences with model random copolymers are also observed in the supermolecular morphology of the latter fractions.
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