Abstract
Previously, isotactic and atactic poly(methyl methacrylates) (PMMAs) were found to be miscible with poly(vinyl phenol) (PVPh) and poly(hydroxy ether of bisphenolβA) (phenoxy) because all the prepared films were transparent and showed compositionβdependent glass transition temperatures (T~g~'s). However, syndiotactic PMMA was immiscible with PVPh because most of the cast films had two T~g~'s. On the contrary, syndiotactic PMMA was still miscible with phenoxy. According to our preliminary results, PVPh and phenoxy are not miscible. Also to our knowledge, nobody has reported any results concerning the effect of the tacticity of PMMA on its ternary blend containing PVPh and phenoxy. The miscibility of a ternary blend consisting of PVPh, phenoxy, and tactic PMMA was thus investigated and reported in this article. Calorimetry was used as the principal tool to study miscibility. An approximate phase diagram of the ternary blends containing different tactic PMMA was established, probably for the first time, based on differential scanning calorimetry data. Immiscibility was found in most of the studied ternaries but a slight difference due to the effect of tacticity of PMMA was definitely observed. Β© 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 86: 2720β2726, 2002