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Surface characterization of polypropylene/(ethylene-propylene) copolymer blends (PP/EP): Application to injection-moulded systems

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Tomasetti, Eric [UCL] Nysten, Bernard [UCL] Rouxhet, Paul [UCL] Poleunis, Claude [UCL] Bertrand, Patrick [UCL] Legras, Roger [UCL]

Polypropylene/ethylene - propylene copolymer blends (PP/EP) were characterized by time-of-flight (ToF), SIMS, by dynamic wetting and by atomic force microscopy and force modulation spectroscopy (AFM-FMM), In a first step, model systems of compression-moulded PP/EP physical blends were prepared. With these materials, ToF-SIMS provides linear relationships between the selected peak and the EP content in the material. This indicates that both phases are present at the surface in the same concentrations as in the bulk. However, the EP signal is weak. In dynamic wetting measurements with water, for each tested blend composition the advancing contact angle corresponds to that of PP and the receding contact angle corresponds to that of EP, This method is thus suitable for detecting the presence of the two phases at the surface even for low concentrations of one consituent, The force modulation image gives elastic contrasts between EP and PP and is thus able to reveal the surface morphology, In a second step, these methods were used to characterize injection-moulded PP/EP reactor blends. Both AFM-FMM and ToF-SIMS suggest that a PP skin covers EP nodules at the surface. This is confirmed by electron microscopy examinations of cross-sections. This surface phase segregation leads to the presence of PP in the first 100 mm of the surface and could be explained by preferential wetting of the mould by the phase with the lower viscosity, PP in this case. However, dynamic wetting reveals that the PP skin is not complete. Thus, a low EP concentration may be found at the surface, in the form either of EP nodules or of EP molecules having migrated through the PP skin, Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 1999
Language Anglais
Journal information "Surface and Interface Analysis" - Vol. 27, no. 8, p. 735-742 (1999)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Ltd (W Sussex)
issn 0142-2421
e-issn 1096-9918
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - FSA/MAPR - Département des sciences des matériaux et des procédés
Keywords surface ; polyolefines blends ; ToF-SIMS ; AFM-FMM
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Bibliographic reference Tomasetti, Eric ; Nysten, Bernard ; Rouxhet, Paul ; Poleunis, Claude ; Bertrand, Patrick ; et. al. Surface characterization of polypropylene/(ethylene-propylene) copolymer blends (PP/EP): Application to injection-moulded systems. In: Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 27, no. 8, p. 735-742 (1999)
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