Polyolefin Elastomers: A Study on Crosslinking, Blends and Composites

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Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) are materials with processability of thermoplastics while possessing the elastic properties of conventional vulcanized elastomers. Polyolefin elastomers (POEs) prepared by the copolymerization of ethylene with various comonomers like propylene, butene, hexane and octene possess low density and considerably good elasticity. They are being used very widely in almost all fields that are touching the human life such as medical, electrical, electronics, automotive and personal care products. Ethylene-octene copolymer (EOC) is a member of POE group with excellent compatibility with most of other olefins and good processability together with very good elastic properties and high filler acceptance. Due to these attractive properties, EOC has been selected for our studies for modification through blending, composite preparation and crosslinking.