Abstract
The melt strength of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene (m-LLDPE) can be enhanced significantly by blending in less than 10wt% of long chain branched comb polymer. The extent of the enhancement could be ten-fold and depends on the architectural details of the comb polymer. Comb polymers primarily affect melt strength and have little effect on other properties such as shear thinning, melt index, melt index ratio, and intrinsic tear.Balancing melt strength properties against shear-thinning properties is important in LLDPE fabrication processes. One approach would be to augment the effect of comb polymer by blending in another component, namely an easy processing (also known as sparsely long chain branched) LLDPE. In the examples given here, the enhancements in melt strength and shear thinning properties of the base polymer were found to be additive, i.e. a simple weighted sum of component properties matched the blend properties within 10%.
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