Journal
JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 135, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.46244
Keywords
blends; compatibilization; crystallization; morphology; rheology
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51373109, 51721091]
- Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Foundation [2015JQ0012]
- Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities [B13040]
- Scientific Research Foundation of International Cooperation and Exchanges of Sichuan Province [2017HH0003]
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The compatibilization efficiency of styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) triblock copolymer in immiscible polypropylene (PP)/polystyrene (PS) 20/80 blends was evaluated in terms of not only morphology, but also rheology and fractionated crystallization behavior. Besides varying SEBS loading, four different mixing protocols were used to vary SEBS dispersion state. PP2/PS/SEBS blend, prepared by two-step method mixing PS and SEBS primarily, presents the largest droplet size (1.278 m) at the critical compatibilizer concentration (CCC=1 wt %). However, the CCC of blends prepared by the other protocols is 2 wt %. And at the CCC, PP/PS2/SEBS (two step method mixing PP and SEBS primarily) shows the smallest droplet size (0.908 m), followed by PP/PS/SEBS (one step method). The rheology and crystallization behavior of PP/PS blends could also be utilized to assess the compatibilization efficiency of SEBS, but only in the case of mixing under the same protocol and the content of SEBS below a CCC. (c) 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 46244.
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