Metallocene-based Polyolefins Preparation,

With contributions from leading international experts, this essential book gives comprehensive coverage of all areas of metallocene catalysts and metallocene-based polyolefins including details of the very latest developments.The manufacture of polyolefins by metallocene catalysts represents a revolution in the polymer industry. The last five years in particular have seen a dramatic increase in the volume of research into metallocenes and the maturing of metallocene technology.The following areas are covered in this comprehensive book: catalyst structure, comonomer incorporation, polymerization mechanisms and conditions, reactor configurations, special properties, comparison with conventional polyolefins, rheological and processing behavior and fields of application.This is an invaluable book for plastics engineers, polymer chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and all those working in the plastics manufacturing and processing industries.

Dr. John Scheirs has worked extensively with poly and related polyesters. His early work involved studying the UV stability of PET and poly- ethylene naphthalate - in France and later he was involved with studying various industrial problems involving polyesters, such as photodegradation, annealing, crystallization behaviour, embrittlement, degradation by aminolysis, differential scanning calorimetry analysis, environmental stress cracking, hydrolysis, nucleating agents, transesterification, injection moulding of recycled PET compounds, solid-state polycondensation, desiccant drying of PET and melt stabilization of PET. More recently in the period 1998-2000, he was the technical manager for Coca-Cola Amatil's world-first PET reforming plant which converts post-consumer PET bottles into high-grade, high IV palletized PET for direct reuse in new bottles and injection and sheet moulding applications. John Scheirs is now the principal consultant with ExcelPlas Polymer Technology where he specializes in polymer recycling chemistry, formulation, processing and testing.

Dr. Duane Priddy is founder and CEO of Plastic Failure Labs. he is a polymer and plastic consultant, expert witness, and forensic scientist in Michigan. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Central Michigan University and as a principal scientist for Dow Chemical Company.

Contributors

ix

Series Preface

xv

Preface

xvii

Brief Historical Perspective

xix

About the Editors

xxv

I MECHANISTIC ASPECTS OF METALLOCENE CATALYSTS

Molecular Modeling Studies of Stereospecificity and Regiospecificity of Propene Polymerizations by Metallocences

3

(34)

Paolo Corradini

Luigi Cavallo

Gaetano Guerra

Chirotopicity of Metallocene Catalysts and Propene Polymerization

37

(20)

Giuseppe Di Silvestro

Stereospecific Polymerization of Chiral α-Olefins

57

(12)

Adolfo Zambelli

Computational Modeling of Single-site Olefin Polymerization Catalysts

69

(20)

Tom K. Woo

Liqun Deng,

Peter M. Margl

Tom Ziegler

II CYCLOOLEFINS, DIENES AND FUNCTIONALIZED OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION

Homo- and Copolymerization of Cycloolefins by Metallocene Catalysts

89

(26)

Walter Kaminsky

Michael Arndt-Rosenau

Metallocene Catalysts for 1,3-Diene Polymerization

115

(28)

Lido Porri

Antonino Giarrusso

Giovanni Ricci

New Functionalized Olefin Copolymers Synthesized by Metallocenes and Novel Organometallic Catalysts

143

(18)

Barbro Lofgren

Jukka Seppala

III PLASTOMERS AND ELASTOMERS

Constrained Geometry Single-site Catalyst Technology Elastomers and Plastomers for Impact Modifications and Automotive Applications

161

(44)

K. Sehanobish

S. Wu. J. A. Dibbern

M. K. Laughner

Structure, Properties and Applications of Polyolefin Elastomers Produced by Constrained Geometry Catalysts

175

T. Ho

J. M. Martin

Packaging Applications Using Enhanced Polyethylenes and Polyolefin Plastomers Produced by Constrained Geometry Single-site Catalysts

205

(32)

Kaelyn Koch, Jackie deGroot

John Lastovica

Measurement, Mathematical Modeling and Control of Distribution of Molecular Weight, Chemical Composition and Long-chain Branching of Polyolefins Made with Metallocene Catalysts

237

(34)

Joao B. P. Soares

Alexander Penlidis

IV STYRENE POLYMERIZATION

Structure, Properties and Applications of Ethylene--Styrene Interpolymers

271

(22)

M. J. Guest,

Y. Y. Cheung,

C. F. Diehl

S. M. Hoenig

Metallocene-Based Reactive Poyolefin Copolymers Containing p-Methylstyrene

293

(28)

T. C. Chung

V COMMERCIAL METALLOCENE POLYMERIZATION METHODS

Application of Metallocene Catalyts to Large-scale Slurry Loop Reactors

321

(12)

Darryl R. Fahey,

M. Bruce Welch,

Elizabeth A. Benham,

Carl E. Stouffer

Jose M. Dionisio

Dale L. Embry

Syriac J. Palackal

R. W. Hankinson

Robert W. Bohmer

Mike C. Carter

John Stewart

Art Orscheln

L. W. Brenek

Ashish M. Sukhadia

William M. Whitte

Louis Moore

Multi-catalyst Reactor Granule Technology for the Production of Metallocene Polymers

333

(32)

J. C. Haylock,

R. A. Phillips

M. D. Wolkowicz

Metallocene Catalyst Technology in a Bimodal Polymerization Process

365

(16)

Hikka Knuuttila,

Arja Lehtinen

Hannu Salminen

VI RHEOLOGY AND PROCESSING OF METALLOCENE--BASED POLYMERS

Rheological Properties of Metallocene-catalyzed Polyolefins in the Melt and Solid States and Comparison with Conventional Polyolefins

381

(18)

Jose Maria Carella

Lidia Maria Quinzani

Rheology and Processing of Metallocene-based Polyolefins

399

(20)

Chr. Friedrich,

A. Eckstein,

F. Stricker

R. Mulhaupt

Melt-rheological Characteristics of Metallocene-catalyzed Polyethylenes

419

(16)

David C. Rohlfing

Jay Janzen

Extrusion Characteristics of Metallocene-based Polyolefins

435

(28)

C. Y. Cheng

VII APPLICATIONS OF METALLOCENE-BASED POLYOLEFINS

Film Applications for Metallocene-based Propylene Polymers

463

(26)

Aspy K. Mehta,

Michael C. Chen

Charlie Y. Lin

Medical Applications of Metallocene-catalyzed Polyolefins

489

(28)

Robert C. Portnoy

Joseph D. Domine

Constrained Geometry-catalyzed Polyolefins in Durable and Wire and Cable Applications

517

(26)

S. Betso,

L. T. Kale

J. J. Hemphill

Production and Use of Metallocene-based Polyethylene in Rotomolding Applications

543

(14)

Anne M. Fatnes,

I. S. Melaaen,

V. Almquist

A. Follestad

Index

557

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