Abstract
An environmental benign process, which uses supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO 2) as a processing aid, is developed in this work to prepare long chain branching polypropylene (LCB-PP). Results from the oscillatory shear rheology, melt elongational behavior and Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) show that long chains have been linked as branches to the original linear PP chains using scCO 2-assisted reactive extrusion in the presence of cumene hydroperoxide and 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate. Compared to the initial linear PP, the branched samples show higher storage modulus ( G′) at low frequency, distinct strain hardening of elongational viscosity, lower melt flow rate, increased crystallization temperature and improvement of the melt strength. ScCO 2 can improve the branching efficiency of modified PPs. The elastic response, melt strength and strain hardening parameter of the modified PPs increase with increasing scCO 2 concentration, which is ascribed to scCO 2 acting as a plasticizer for reducing PP viscosity and a carrier for active chemical species.
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