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COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 286, Issue 10, Pages 1193-1202Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-008-1889-8
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crystallization; blends; hydrophilicity; poly (vinylidene) fluoride (PVDF)
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Poly (styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN) is a hydrophilic non-crystalline copolymer, which is initially used in this paper to improve the hydrophilicity of poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). Investigation of the crystallization behavior of PVDF/SAN blends showed that the samples presented only alpha phase regardless of SAN content as cooling from the melt. A double-melting phenomenon was related to the perfection or crystal size of PVDF crystals. As the SAN content is increasing, crystallization of PVDF was limited, leading to a decreased crystallinity and lamellar growth. Besides, the hydrophilicity of PVDF was improved by blending with SAN. The sample containing 70 wt.% SAN performed a similar surface property of the neat SAN owing to the besieging of the PVDF phase by SAN. Observed from the cross section of the blends, PVDF/SAN blends were partially miscible with less than 50 wt.% SAN addition. As the SAN content was more than 50 wt.%, the crystalline PVDF particles clearly dispersed in the amorphous matrix.
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