Polypropylene (PP) and Polyethylene (PE) are two major plastics in our lives because these polyolefins have advantage in mechanical, thermal properties, and low cost production over others. These polyolefins, however, cannot co-crystallize due to structural mismatch during recycling. This disadvantage leads to thousands of plastic wastes. From an environmental point, development of novel polyolefins, which can be co-crystallized, is an emergent and important issue in academic and industrial research. In this talk, we will provide alternative candidates of polyolefins, which have similar thermal properties with PE and PP, and can co-crystallize during mixing. We will present unique structural evolution, molecular dynamics, and phase structure of novel polyolefins and their blends.

Structure, molecular dynamics, and recyclability of novel polyolefins

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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