Effect of selected residual Ziegler-Natta and metallocene catalysts on the UV-induced degradation of unstabilized ethylene homopolymer films

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2289-2299

  Hussain, Ikram ^a   Atiqullah, Muhammad ^a   Fazal, Atif ^a   Alam, Khurshid ^a   Hossaen, Anwar ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Ethylene homopolymers; Residual catalyst; Surface chemistry and solid state electronic environment; Thermal properties; Thermo and photooxidative degradation

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RADIUS; CARBONYL INDEX; CATALYST SYSTEM; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; END-PRODUCTS; ETHYLENE HOMOPOLYMERS; EXPOSURE-TIME; HOMOPOLYMERS; HYDROPEROXIDES; INDUCED DEGRADATION; METALLOCENE CATALYST; METALLOCENES; PHOTO-OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION; RESIDUAL CATALYST; SOLID STATE ELECTRONICS; THERMAL PROPERTIES; TI CONTENT; ZIEGLER-NATTA; ZIRCONOCENES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CAPILLARITY; CATALYSTS; ETHYLENE; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; ORGANOMETALLICS; RESINS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 78649450331     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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