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Symposium: S02 - (General Session 2) Extrusion
Poster Presentation
 
 

Novel polypropylene pipe with simultaneously enhanced hoop tensile strength and toughness: based on an understanding of coupled effect of self-assembly β nucleating agent and rotation extrusion

Han Rui (1), Nie Min (1), Wang Qi (1)*

(1) State Key Lab of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University - Sichuan - China

In this study, tiny β nucleating agent (TMB-5) was introduced into rotation extrusion of polypropylene (PP) pipe. The crystalline patterns of TMB-5 were found to be sensitive to the processing temperature, which provides powerful template to precisely tailor the crystalline morphology of PP pipes. The experimental results showed that during the PP pipe processing, dendritic and fibrous TMB-5 could be achieved via applying different maximum heating temperature, and then as a template directed the epitaxial crystallization of PP into β-form dendritic crystals and hybrid β-form shish-kebab crystals respectively. Compared to the isotropic dendritic crystals, the hybrid β-form shish-kebab structure took the advantages of both high-strength oriented morphology and superior-toughness β-form crystal. Because reinforcing role is guaranteed by the formation of anisotropic crystals and its alignment direction, the alignment of hybrid β-form shish kebab crystals off the axial direction was further achieved via self-designed rotation extrusion system, where the hoop drag flow caused by the mandrel rotation was superposed on the axial flow. As a result, the PP pipes with simultaneously enhanced toughness and hoop strength were prepared. When the rotation speed of mandrel was 8rpm, the hoop strength and toughness of the PP pipe reached 34MPa and 15.1 kJ respectively, 75% and 78% higher than those of the conventionally extruded pure PP pipes. We are grateful for the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51127003).