Crosslinked blends of amorphous and crystalline polymers and their applications

Abstract

The present invention is broadly directed to a polyolefin polymer composition produced by copolymerizing one or more alpha-olefins and one or more di-olefin monomers in the presence of at least one stereospecific metallocene catalyst system and at least one non-stereospecific metallocene catalyst system. The polymer composition so produced contains amorphous polymer segments and crystalline polymer segments in which at least some of the segments are crosslinked. Both the amorphous and the crystalline polymer segments are copolymers of one or more alpha-olefins and one or more di-olefin monomers. Crosslinking of at least a portion of the mixture of polymer segments is accomplished during the polymerization of the composition by incorporation of single di-olefin comonomers into two polymer segments.

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