Polypropylene and Ethylene−Propylene Copolymer Reactor Alloys Prepared by Metallocene/Ziegler−Natta Hybrid Catalyst

Polypropylene/ethylene−propylene rubber (PP/EPR) reactor alloys were prepared with a metallocene/Ziegler−Natta hybrid catalyst system (rac-Et(Ind)2ZrCl2/TiCl4/MgCl2) using a process composed of three stages: propylene homopolymerization, metallocene activation, and ethylene−propylene copolymerization. A series of alloy samples were produced and characterized at various copolymerization conditions by varying the methylaluminoxane (MAO)/Zr ratio …