Despite the key to the adhesion between polymers and
a plethora
of materials, our understanding of reactive wetting is still rudimentary.
In the present work, we report the reactive wetting dynamics of molten
maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene (MA-g-PP)
liquids modeled by molecular-kinetic theory (MKT). The dependencies
of the contact line friction (ζ) and viscosity (η) were
compared for reactive and nonreactive wetting polymer systems. Compared
with linear dependencies of ζ and η for the nonreactive
wetting systems, the reactive wetting system presented a nonlinear
relationship. In the capillary regime, the chemistry-affected regime
is followed by a regime that is nearly not affected by chemical reactions,
which is identified by the linear MKT. The formation of a new interface
and the resulting entanglements of polymer chains in the chemistry-affected
regime contribute to the dependence of ζ on η in the capillary
regime.