Oxidization and Chain-Branching Reaction for Recycling HDPE and Mixed HDPE/PP with In-situ Compatibilization by Ozone-Induced Reactive Extrusion

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High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and isotactic polypropylene (iPP) are widely used in industrial and residential applications due to their low cost and chemical stability, thus their recycling process can contribute to a circular economy. However, both polymers are non-polar materials, and the incompatibility with most other materials leads to substantially inferior properties of blends. In this work, we propose a flexible compatibilization strategy to improve the compatibility of HDPE/iPP blends. Ozone is adopted to induce reactive extrusion for rapid oxidation of HDPE and chain-branching reactions for both HDPE and HDPE/iPP blends. During extrusion process, ozone oxidizes HDPE effectively in a short time and introduces oxygen-containing groups such as carbonyl and ester groups, which improves the hydrophilicity. The addition of trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) could promote branching reaction and facilitate the formation of HDPE-g-iPP copolymers, which improved the compatibility for HDPE/iPP. As a result, the impact strength of ozone-modified HDPE and HDPE/iPP blends increased by 22 % and 82 %, respectively, and the tensile strength also increased. This strategy would have potential applications in the field of sorting-free and solvent-free recycling of waste polyolefin plastics.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

ChemSusChem - 17(2024), 3 vom: 08. Feb., Seite e202301035

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wei, Shi-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chun-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Ya-Nan [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Xian-Wu [VerfasserIn]
Kuang, Qing-Lin [VerfasserIn]
He, Guang-Jian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chain-branching
Journal Article
Oxidization
Polyethylene
Reactive extrusion

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Date Revised 09.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cssc.202301035

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362216878