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EPSRC Reference: GR/M27012/01
Title: MICROSTRUCTURE, PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES IN NEW GENERATION POLYETHYLENES
Principal Investigator: Bassett, Professor D
Other Investigators:
Ward, Professor IM
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Department: Physics
Organisation: University of Reading
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 October 1998 Ends: 30 September 1999 Value (£): 8,550
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials Characterisation
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Systematic electron microscopic studies will be undertaken at Reading University of various metallocene - catalysed polyethylene samples prepared at Leeds University in the EPSRC project Preparation, Structure, Properties and Modelling of Oriented Polymers . The lamellar and higher order structures (e.g. spherulites and their legacy) will be characterised in the initial materials as functions of molecular parameters and pre-treatment conditions and thereafter at appropriate stages of preparation of very highly oriented materials via different routes.It is intended that, as in previous collaboration, this information will be used by Leeds to help optimise their products and production processes.
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