The morphology of impact polypropylene copolymer (IPC) was studied through scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation, and a modified dispersed phase model of IPC with core-shell structure was proposed. Through fractionation of IPC, the glass transitions of the ethylene propylene random copolymer (EPR) fraction, ethylene propylene block copolymer (EbP) fraction and propylene homopolymer (iPP) fraction were detected, respectively. Moreover, the glass transitions and crystallization behaviors of EbP/iPP and EPR/EbP fraction blends were systemically investigated and several reasonable chain structures of EbP component were confirmed. The results reveal that the EbP component presents three glass transition peaks, and the glass transition temperature of ethylene propylene random copolymer in IPC sample is remarkably lower than that of pure EPR fraction due to the existence of special structure of EbP component in IPC. In addition, co-crystallization occurring between the polypropylene chains in EbP fraction and in iPP fraction was found for solution-mixed EbP/iPP blends, and it is believed that there exists a dilute effect of EPR on the crystallization of EbP fraction for the solution-mixed EPR/EbP blends. Accordingly, it can be inferred that EbP fraction has good compatibility with both EPR and iPP fraction, and indeed it confirms that the compatibilization effect of EbP fraction in IPC was good. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.