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Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol.38, No.11, 1564-1574, 2000
A thermal and mechanical study under dynamical conditions of Polypropylene/Mica composites containing atactic polypropylene with succinil-fluoresceine grafted groups as interfacial modifier from the matrix side
The dynamic thermal and mechanical behavior of Polypropylene/Mica composites-with improved properties induced by the presence of succinil-fluoresceine groups onto atactic polypropylene with different grafting levels-is the subject of this article. A further correlation of these with the macroscopic mechanical performance of the composite materials is also discovered. The atactic polypropylenes containing succinil-fluoresceine grafted groups were previously obtained in our laboratories by chemical modification of a byproduct of industrial polymerization reactors. The interfacial modifications induced by replacing a little amount of polymer matrix in the composite material by the grafted atactic polypropylene is clearly concluded either from a microscopic or a macroscopic point of view.