POLYPROPENE GLASS ADHESION - FUNCTIONALIZED AND COCRYSTALLIZABLE POLYPROPENE USED AS COUPLING AGENT/

Functionalized polypropenes have been synthesized to be used as coupli ng agents at the glass fiber/polypropene interface. The cocrystallizat ion of this coupling agent and the matrix is studied by DSC and WAXS a nd in an other hand by a Monte Carlo simulation. The required characte ristics of the functionalized polypropene cocrystalliize with the PP m atrix are discussed. In a second part, the ability of the selected pol ymers to be grafted on a glass substrate is studied. The influence of the introduction of such coupling agents at the interface is studied i n microcomposites.