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AUTHOR
Marek Sudol
Composites of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers with modified magnesium hydroxide-thermo-oxidative ageing
Flame retardant composites must perform their protective roles permanently, also under conditions of intermittent or long-term exposure to sunlight, moisture or increased temperature. The aim of our work was characterization of the thermo-oxidative ageing (90 °C) and the changes in flammability of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer composites with 40 and 60 wt.% of magnesium hydroxide. The neat polymer and its composites were investigated for their thermal (DSC) and structural (FTIR) characteristics as well as their density, melt flow index, tensile properties and combustibility during ageing test. As FTIR results identified the different carbonyl groups in copolymer were created, the highest…
Stabilisation of LDPE cross-linked in the presence of peroxides III. Mass spectrometric study of chemical changes taking place in the n-octadecane–dicumyl peroxide–Irganox 1081 system
Abstract An attempt was made to identify the products of the reaction between dicumyl peroxide and Irganox 1081, carried out in n -octadecane (saturated hydrocarbon), in conditions of fast decomposition of the peroxide (180°C, 5 min). Mass spectrometry (MS) was employed to find m/z values of molecular and fragment ions in analyses of the components ( n -octadecane, dicumyl peroxide, Irganox 1081) and of the following systems: n -octadecane–dicumyl peroxide, n -octadecane–Irganox 1081 and n -octadecane–dicumyl peroxide–Irganox 1081, after holding them at a temperature of 180°C for 5 min. The tendency of sulphur in Irganox 1081 to oxidise, specifically in the presence of dicumyl peroxide, was…
Stabilisation of LDPE cross-linked in the presence of peroxidesII. FTIR study of chemical changes taking place in the LDPE–dicumyl peroxide–Irganox 1081 system
Abstract The chemical changes taking place in the systems: LDPE–Irganox 1081, LDPE–dicumyl peroxide and LDPE–Irganox 1081–dicumyl peroxide, after homogenisation (in a rolling mill at 130°C) and after homogenisation and cross-linking (at 180°C and 5.0 MPa for 20 min) were investigated by FTIR. It was found that the OH groups in Irganox 1081 were in a bound form, and were most probably linked to the sulphur co-ordination centre. Further, the presence of dicumyl peroxide without Irganox 1081 in LDPE resulted in the formation of hydroperoxide groups at a temperature of 130°C, which were replaced by free hydroxy and carbonyl groups of a ketonic type after cross-linking. Simultaneous addition of …
Weathering of low-density polyethylene grafted with itaconic acid in laboratory tests
Polyethylene grafted with itaconic acid was subjected to weathering under laboratory accelerated conditions. The course of the photo-oxidative degradation process of that material was studied by FTIR spectroscopy both through quantitative measurements of changes in absorbance values at selected wave numbers and through measurements of surface area values for absorption bands which were separated by means of deconvolution. The use of both those procedures of quantitative determinations resulted in a general conclusion that the oxidation process was initiated from the very first moment of irradiation, and it produced ketones, acids, esters (intramolecular and of acetate type), peracids, peres…