Comparative experimental and modelling study of the thermal and thermo-mechanical properties of LLDPE/wax blends

Abstract The interactions and morphology of molecules in a polymer blend influence the physical properties blend. However, little is known about molecular interaction on thermal mechanical LLDPE/wax blends. Although cooling rate can be used to investigate blends' properties, it inadequate determine between since related blends could rate, samples prepared by melt mixing were cooled at different rates. modelled through dynamic simulations. transitions compared experimentally determined relaxations effect wax addition crystallinity. crystallization behaviour was studied differential scanning calorimetry, analysis, differences crystallinity X-ray diffraction. There no significant results for slow- quench-cooled samples, confirming rapid both LLDPE wax. Experiments dynamics simulations confirmed cocrystallization with LLDPE.