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Depolymerizable Olefinic Polymers Based on Fused-Ring Cyclooctene Monomers
Published on: December 16, 2022
In-depth characterization of polyolefin plastomers/elastomers (ethylene/1-octene copolymers) through hyphenated
J-H Arndt1, R Brüll1, T Macko1
1Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF, Division Plastics, Group Material Analysis, Schlossgartenstrasse 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
Abstract:
The chemical composition distribution (CCD) of three single site made ethylene/1-octene copolymers was investigated through offline-hyphenation of solvent gradient interaction chromatography (SGIC) with 1H NMR. Thus, a clear, non-linear correlation between SGIC elution time and chemical composition was found under the specific measurement conditions applied here. The application of 1H NMR as detection allowed to determine the CCD with unprecedented accuracy. 2D-LC of the copolymers revealed the correlation between CCD and molar mass distribution (MMD) in a quantitative manner. Furthermore, this approach allowed a comparison between the response behavior of an evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD, semi-quantitative, commonly applied in SGIC) and that of an infrared (IR) detector (quantitative, commonly applied in SEC). As a result, it could be shown that ELSD results are close to IR results for the system investigated here, in other words, the often-criticized semi-quantitative response behavior of the ELSD is affecting results in an acceptable manner.
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