Studies on the Interfacial Reaction Kinetics of Functionalized Polyethylene And Poly (Ethylene-co-Vinyl Alcohol)

Investigation of the kinetics of interfacial reaction is one of the most interested subjects, especially for multilayer film manufacturers. For determination of the optimum processingparameters, it is necessary to carry out careful investigation of the reaction kinetics. There are many methods for evaluationof interfacial reaction which most important of them are XPS, FRES, GPC and Rheometery [1-4]. In this work a parallelplate rheometer was employed to compute the conversionbetween polyethylene grafted with maleic anhydride (PE-g- MA) and poly (ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) (EVOH), and then evaluated the kinetics through conversion data