View Journal Article: Structure Development from Simultaneous Phase Separation and Crystallization of Metallocene Polyolefin Blends
Citation:
Han, C. C., Wang, H., Shimizu, K., Kim, H., Hobbie, E. and Wang, Z. G. (2002). Structure Development from Simultaneous Phase Separation and Crystallization of Metallocene Polyolefin Blends. ACS Polymer Preprints43 (2). 856-857.
In this study, we investigated the dynamics of structure evolution in polyolefin blends undergoing simultaneous LLPS and crystallization or cyclic crystallization and melting (CCM)
after LLPS. In the former case, by controlling relative quench depths for LLPS and crystallization, the growth kinetics of the characteristic length shows a crossover of linear dynamics from
crystallization to LLPS, separated by a non-linear regime where both ordering processes are important. In the latter, CCM enhances large-scale domain coarsening while introducing fine structures
within domains.