It is well established that the chain dimensions of a polymer are intimately related to viscoelastic fingerprint and relevant macroscopic properties material such as entanglement modulus its melt viscosity. In this work, have been obtained by means molecular dynamics simulations computed at different temperatures in series ethylene/1-butene copolymers with constant number carbons backbone but v...

In isotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), we investigate the dynamics of the ester methyl groups by means of deuteron magnetic resonance (DMR) in a deuterated sample. We find that the motion of the CD(3)-group affects the deuteron spin-lattice relaxation as well as the DMR line shape in a characteristic way. Quadrupolar order spin lattice relaxation measurements between T=291 K and T=70 K ...

In this work, the compatibility and crystallinity of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and polybutene-1 (PB-1) blends were studied. Various blends of LDPE/PB-1 containing 5, 10 and 20 wt.% PB-1 were prepared in a corotating twin-screw extruder and characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), shear oscillation rheology and wide-angle X-ray diffractometry (WAXD). A matrix-droplet morphology...

Table S2. The results obtained in 1-butyne hydrogenation with parahydrogen over Cy3P-Cu/SiO2-700 catalyst: 1-butyne conversion (X), selectivity to 1-butene (S1-butene), signal enhancements (SE) calculated for vinyl CH and CH2 protons of 1-butene, and lower estimates of percentages of pairwise hydrogen addition calculated using SE values. Temperature, °C Flow rate, mL/s X, % S1-butene, % SE (CH)...

We report the preparation and single-molecule observation of a high molecular weight C60-end-capped, stereoregular poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA-C60) with a precisely controlled structure. The highly isotactic PMMA-C60 (mm = 98%) with a narrow molecular weight distribution was synthesized by the stereospecific anionic living polymerization of tert-butyl methacrylate followed by end-capping wi...

High-pressure in situ x-ray diffraction and specific-volume measurements on isotactic poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) melt have uncovered abrupt changes in the pressure dependence of microscopic structure as well as that of macroscopic density. The first sharp diffraction peak of the polymer melt, which is related to the intermediate-range order and is explained as resulting from the correlations betw...