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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS
Volume 44, Issue 7, Pages 1050-1061Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/polb.20765
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adhesion; elastomers; morphology; polyamides; poly(propylene) (PP)
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The effects of maleated thermoplastic elastomer (TPEg) on morphological development of polypropylene (PP)/polyamide 6 (PA6) blends with a fixed PA6 content (30 wt %) were investigated. For purpose of comparison, nonmaleated thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) was also added to the above binary blends. A comparative study of FTIR spectroscopy in above both ternary blends confirmed the formation of in situ graft copolymer in the PP/PA6/TPEg blend. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) indicated that un-like TPE, the incorporation of TPEg remarkably affected both intensity and position of loss peaks of blend components. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) demonstrated that PP/PA6/TPE blends still exhibited poor interfacial adhesion between the dispersed phase and matrix. However, the use of TPEg induced a finer dispersion and promoted interfacial adhesion. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for PP/PA6/TPEg blends showed that a core-shell structure consisting of PA6 particles encapsulated by an interlayer was formed in PP matrix. With the concentration of TPEg increasing, the dispersed core-shell particles morphology was found to transform from discrete acorn-type particles to agglomerate with increasing degree of encapsulation. The modified Harkin's equation was applied to illustrate the evolution of morphology with TPEg concentration. Droplet-sandwiched experiments further confirmed the encapsulation morphology in PP/PA6/TPEg blends. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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