Photochemical Degradation of Copolymer Propylene/Clay Nanocomposites

VERÓNICA RIECHERT; ANÍBAL FERROFINO; LIDIA QUINZANI; MARCELO FAILLA

Buenos Aires

Simposio; XVI Simposio Latinoamericano de Polímeros y XIV Congreso Iberoamericano de Polímeros; 2018

Nowadays, accumulation of polymer waste is a serious environmental problem. In the particular case of polyolefins, their photochemical degradation can be accelerated by adding certain additives or other polymers1. Moreover, some authors suggest that the presence of nanoclay can enhance this process2.In the present work, we analyse the photochemical degradation of nanocomposites (NCs) based on propylene copolymers and organophilic montmori-llonite (oMMT).