A crystalline polymer, Nylon 6, was selectively blended with various amorphous polymers containing phenolic moieties. It was found that moisture absorption by the amide group in Nylon 6 could effectively be reduced by blending with p-Cl-novolac at ratios as low as 2 phr (part per hundred resin). Ble
Blends of nylon-6 with phenol-containing polymers
โ Scribed by Ping-Tsung Huang; T. K. Kwei; E. M. Pearce; S. V. Levchik
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-624X
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โฆ Synopsis
The miscibility of nylon-6 with poly(4-vinylphenol) (PVPh) or poly(1-hydroxy-2,6-methylphenylene) (p-Cl-novolac) was studied with differential scanning calorimetry and small-angle X-ray scattering techniques. Both PVPh and p-Cl-novolac are miscible with nylon-6 at the molecular level. The presence of the phenolic polymers affects the crystallization of nylon-6 and suppresses its melting point. PVPh increases the long space order in crystalline nylon-6 because it increases the thickness of the amorphous layers. In contrast, a small quantity of p-Cl-novolac tends to decrease the long space order. It seems that p-Cl-novolac distributed in the amorphous regions introduces more order in these regions and makes the amorphous layers thinner.
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