Polypropylene with free-end long chain branching, process for making it, and use thereof

Disclosed is normally solid, gel-free, amorphous to predominantly crystalline, polypropylene characterized by strain hardening believed to be due to molecular chains that have substantial, free-end long branches of propylene units. Also disclosed is a process for making it by high energy radiation o...

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Hauptverfasser:	DENICOLA, ANTHONY J, SCHEVE, B. JOSEPH, MAYFIELD, JOHN W
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING CHEMISTRY COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS METALLURGY ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS PERFORMING OPERATIONS SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP TRANSPORTING WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL WORKING-UP
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Zusammenfassung:	Disclosed is normally solid, gel-free, amorphous to predominantly crystalline, polypropylene characterized by strain hardening believed to be due to molecular chains that have substantial, free-end long branches of propylene units. Also disclosed is a process for making it by high energy radiation of linear polypropylene in a reduced active oxygen environment, maintaining the irradiated material in such environment for a specific period of time, and then deactivating free radicals in the material. Further disclosed is the use of the strain hardening polyproplene in extensional flow operations such as, for example, extrusion coating, film production, and thermo-forming.