Elastomeric properties of ethylene/1-octene random and block copolymers synthesized from living coordination polymerization

The elastomeric performance of a series of ethylene/1-octene random and block copolymers prepared from living coordination polymerization was studied in this work. All the polymer samples exhibited good toughness. The living random copolymers had better elasticity than commercial metallocene random copolymers. The strain recovery of the living random copolymers was about 90% with an applied strain up to 800%. It was demonstrated that the …