Finely-tuned strength-toughness balance of PPR/UHMWPE blends via shear-enhanced crystal orientation and cocrystal-locked UHMPE particles

The presence of ultrahigh molecular weight species in polymer melt facilitates the formation of highly-oriented crystalline structures and favors the improvement of mechanical properties. However, due to the random copolymer chain architecture, it is difficult to obtain high orientation of crystals for polypropylene random copolymers (PPR). In this work, two binary blends including polypropylene (PP)/ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) and polypropylene random copolymer (PPR)/UHMWPE were fabricated via solution blending and subsequent melt shear through mini-injection molding. It was found that a highly-oriented crystalline structure forms under shear flow in both blend series. The tensile strength of PP blends increased from ۳۸.۳MPa to ۴۳.۸MPa while the PPR blends showed a more significant property enhancement and increased from ۳۲.۵MPa to ۳۸.۱MPa. Importantly, PPR showed an increased miscibility with UHMWPE in comparison with PP due to the existence of ethylene segments. The tensile toughness of PPR samples was greatly maintained especially for blends with small addition of UHMWPE, which may be ascribed to the crack-suppression effect originated from well dispersed UHMWPE domains (particle size < ۰.۵۰ μm) locked by the cocrystal structures between PPR segments and molecularly mixed PE chains.

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Mechanical property, polymer blending, phase morphology, crystal orientation

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