Morphology and Mechanical Properties of the Mesomorphic Form of Isotactic Polypropylene in Stereodefective Polypropylene

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• 作者：Claudio De Rosa ; Finizia Auriemma ; Rocco Di Girolamo ; Odda Ruiz de Ballesteros ; Martina Pepe ; Oreste Tarallo ; Anna Malafronte
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：July 9, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：46
• 期：13
• 页码：5202-5214
• 全文大小：1246K
• 年卷期：v.46,no.13(July 9, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5835

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A study of the morphology and the mechanical properties of the mesomorphic form of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) that crystallizes in samples of different stereoregularity prepared with metallocene catalysts is reported. Highly isotactic samples slowly crystallized from the melt in the 伪 form show the typical lamellar morphology with organization in spherulites. Bundle-like elongated crystalline entities and needle-like crystals of 纬 form are instead observed for stereoirregular samples slowly crystallized from the melt in the 纬 form. All samples crystallize by fast quenching the melt at 0 掳C in the mesomorphic form, regardless of stereoregularity. Crystals of the mesomorphic form always exhibit a nodular morphology and absence of lamellar spherulitic superstructures, independent of the stereoregularity. This morphology accounts for the similar good deformability of all the quenched samples, whatever the concentration of stereodefects. For all samples and any stereoregularity, the nodular morphology with absence of spherulites is preserved after annealing and transformation of the mesophase into 伪 form. The formation of a nodular 伪 form accounts for outstanding properties of high ductility and mechanical strength of the annealed samples crystallized in the 伪 form. The most stereoirregular sample with rr concentration of 11% shows elastic behavior either when it is slowly crystallized in the 纬 form or when it is crystallized in the mesomorphic form and also after annealing and transformation of the mesophase into the nodular 伪 form.