Crosslinking of low density polyethylene with octavinyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane as the crosslinker

Abstract

We report a new strategy for the crosslinking of LDPE using octavinyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane as the crosslinker, which dramatically decreases the amount of dicumyl peroxide and thus avoids the chain scission, scorch, and production of small pores in the conventional peroxide crosslinking strategy.