Multilateral characterization for industrial Ziegler-Natta catalysts toward elucidation of structure-performance relationship

Multilateral characterization was performed in order to chemically and structurally parameterized state-of-the-art Ziegler-Natta catalysts with ill-defined hierarchical structures. The present research demonstrated a possible key role of the monomer diffusion in olefin copolymerization as well as the validity of characterization over multi-length scales to uncover structure-performance relationships in complicated heterogeneous catalysis.