Joao B. P. Soares 
Polyolefin Characterization 
The First International Conference on Polyolefin Characterization

The First International Conference on Polyolefin Characterization (ICPC) held in Houston, Texas, in October 2006, was organized to fill the important industrial and academic need for a discussion forum on the characterization and fractionation techniques of polyolefins. These proceedings represent an excellent and up-to-date overview of recent advances in this important area, providing much information and facts that are not available elsewhere.
The result is a collection of top quality contributions by experienced editors and international authors on such fields as separation and fractionation, high throughput processes, thermal and crystallinity analysis, spectroscopy and rheology.
Equally of high interest for the polymer industry.

Table of Content

An overview of important microstructural distributions for polyolefin analysis
Development of an automated crossfractionation apparatus, TREF-GPC, for a full characterization of the bivariate distribution in polyolefins
Examples of using 3D-GPC-TREF for polyolefin characterization
Separation and characterization of ethylene-propylene copolymers by high-temperature gradient HPLC coupled to FTIR spectroscopy
Molecular topology fractionation of polystyrene stars and long chain branched polyethylene fractions
Crystallization elution fractionation. A new separation process for polyolefin resins
Block Index for Characterizing Olefin Block Copolymers
A mathematical model for the kinetics of crystallization in Crystaf
Characterization of ethylene-1-hexene copolymers made with supported metallocene catalysts: Influence of support type
Application of fractionation technique to the studies of olefin polymerization kinetics and polymer degradation
Synthesis and characterization of ethylene/propylene copolymers in the whole composition range
Characterization of polyethylene nascent powders synthesized by Tp Ti Cl2(OR) catalysts
Characterization of LDPE grafted with diethylmaleate by gamma radiation: Application of FTIR, GPC and SSA techniques
Thermal stability evaluation of PA6/LLDPE/SEBS-g-DEM blends
Using solvents to improve the chemical shift differences between short-chain branch methines and long-chain branch methines in polyethylene copolymers

About the author

João Soares is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Before moving to Canada, he worked during four years as an R&D engineer for Pronor, COPENE, and Polibrasil (Brazil). He did his Ph D thesis under the supervision of Professor A.E. Hamielec, in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Mc Master University and joined the faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1995.
Professor Soares’s research interests are: polymerization reactor engineering for Ziegler-Natta, metallocene, late transition metal, free-radical and living free-radical polymerization, polymer microstructural characterization and fractionation, mathematical modeling of polymer microstructure, and in-situ polymer nanocomposites.
Professor Soares is recipient of the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2000), the Union Carbide/Dow Innovation Recognition Program (2000, 2001), and the Syncrude/CSCh E Canada Innovation Award (2001).