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Chemiluminescence as a Tool for Polyolefin Oxidation Studies

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Long Term Properties of Polyolefins

Part of the book series: Advances in Polymer Science ((POLYMER,volume 169))

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The oxidation of polymers such as polypropylene and polyethylene is accompanied by weak chemiluminescence. The development of sensitive photon counting systems has made it comparatively easy to measure faint light emissions and polymer chemiluminescence has become an important method to follow the initial stages in the oxidative degradation of polymers. Alternatively, chemiluminescence is used to determine the amount of hydroperoxides accumulated in a pre-oxidised polymer. Chemiluminescence has also been applied to study how irradiation or mechanical stress affects the rate of polymer oxidation. In recent years, imaging chemiluminescence has been established as a most valuable technique offering both spatial and temporal resolution of oxidation in polymers. This technique has disclosed that oxidation in polyolefins is non-uniformly distributed and proceeds by spreading.

This review is the result of several investigations performed by the authors and other research groups where chemiluminescence has been used to study oxidative degradation of polyolefins, either as the main technique or as a complement to other techniques.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Professor Ann-Christine Albertsson, Professor Ulf Gedde at our department and Professor Björn Terselius, now at Kristianstad University, for their contribution to his article.

We also thank the former PhD students at the department: Dr. Bengt Mattson, Dr. Camilla Wiberg, Dr. Anna Kron, Dr. Gustav Ahlblad, Dr. Dan Forsström and Dr. Farideh Khabbaz, for their hard work to increase our knowledge of polymer degradation using chemiluminescence.

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  3. Department of Chemistry, Nuclear Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Torbjörn Reitberger

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Jacobson, K., Eriksson, P., Reitberger, T., Stenberg, B. Chemiluminescence as a Tool for Polyolefin Oxidation Studies. In: Albertsson, AC. (eds) Long Term Properties of Polyolefins. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 169. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b13522

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