This invention relates to polymers comprising: one or more that include 1) at least 11 wt % 4 substituted 1,4 hexadiene and less than 20 wt % 5-methyl-1,4-hexadiene, based upon the weight of the polymer, and 2) optionally, one or more olefins; and processes to produces such polymers using metallocene or post-metallocene catalyst compounds.

Provided is a tetraarylborate compound, a catalyst composition including the same, and a method for preparing an ethylene homopolymer or an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer using the same. Specifically, the teraarylborate compound having excellent thermal stability, able to be completely dissolved in an aliphatic hydrocarbon-based solvent to facilitate the operation of commercial processes and effectively inducing the activation of a single active site catalyst, may be used as a catalyst activator to provide an ethylene-based copolymer selected from a high molecular weight ethylene homopolymer and ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having high catalyst activity.

The present invention relates to an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer having a high weight average molecular weight and narrow molecular weight distribution, and at the same time, a reduced characteristic relaxation time, thereby showing excellent physical properties, and a method for preparing the same.

A resin composition having improved volume resistance and excellent light transmittance may be prepared by using such ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer. Accordingly, the ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer may be utilized in various uses in electrical and electronic industrial fields.

Provided are a hybrid supported catalyst which includes two or more kinds of transition metal compounds having the following Chemical Formulas 1 and 2, thereby preparing a polyolefin, particularly, a high-density polyethylene having a molecular structure which is optimized to improve tensile strength of a chlorinated polyolefin compound, and a method of preparing a polyolefin using the same:

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The present invention relates to a semi-crystalline polyolefinic ionomer and a process for the preparation of a semi-crystalline polyolefinic ionomer.

Polymerization processes to produce polyolefin polymers, for example, polyethylene polymers, from catalyst systems comprising one or more olefin polymerization catalysts and at least one activator are provided. The polyolefin polymers may have a Broad Orthogonal Composition Distribution (BOCD).

The present invention provides an adhesive composition including an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer; and a tackifier, wherein the ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer has narrow molecular weight distribution together with a low density and an ultra low molecular weight, minimized number of unsaturated functional groups, and particularly a small amount of vinylidene among the unsaturated functional groups, thereby showing excellent physical properties.

An olefin-based copolymer and method of making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the olefin-based copolymer includes a repeating unit derived from an alpha-olefin, wherein the alphas-olefin is present in the copolymer at 15 wt % to 45 wt %, wherein the copolymer has a density (d) of 0.85 to 0.89 g/cc, a melt index (MI), measured at 190° C. and 2.16 kg load, of 15 g/10 min to 100 g/10 min, and a hardness defined by Equation 1. The olefin-based copolymer has improved hardness and is highly flowable, and may show improved physical properties of tensile strength, elongation rate and flexural modulus.

The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a supported hybrid metallocene catalyst, and the catalyst is prepared by supporting a first metallocene compound, supporting a cocatalyst by a separate-input method in which primarily adding a part at 100° C. to 150° C. and secondarily adding the rest at −5° C. to 40° C., and then supporting a second metallocene compound, thereby improving a supporting rate of the cocatalyst in the supported catalyst and maintaining high catalytic activity. Therefore, the present disclosure can effectively prepare a polyolefin with improved processability which exhibits increased molecular weight distribution while having high morphology (reduced fine powder), high bulk density and improved settling efficiency.

The present invention provides an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer satisfying the following conditions (a) to (d): (a) density: 0.850 to 0.910 g/cc, (b) melt index (MI, 190° C., 2.16 kg load conditions): 0.1 to 100 dg/min, (c) molecular weight distribution (MWD): 1.5 to 3.0, and (d) a R.sub.v value of 0.18 to 0.59.