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Effects of chemical reactions on the properties of polycarbonate/liquid crystalline polymer blends

✍ Scribed by Seung Bum Kil; O Ok Park; Kwan Han Yoon


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
357 KB
Volume
73
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8995

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✦ Synopsis


Effects of chemical reactions on the properties of the polycarbonate (PC)/ liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) blends are considered here. Not only thermal and rheological behaviors, but also morphology and molecular weight change are investigated. Reactive blends were prepared in a cylindrical flask at 300Β°C with varying processing time in the presence of a catalyst by the melt-phase reactions. For comparison, physical blends, in which chemical reactions were minimized, were also prepared at 300Β°C in a twin-screw extruder. It seems that transesterification and repolymerization did not occur, but depolymerization reaction took place slightly in PC/LCP physical blends. In reactive blends, however, transesterification and repolymerization as well as depolymerization reaction took place simultaneously. The depolymerization reaction occurred mainly at an early stage of processing; whereas, repolymerization reaction becomes especially dominant after some time (more than 30 min) in the presence of the catalyst, which had a great impact on its molecular weight. Also, chemical reactions changed the glass transition temperature and morphology as well as rheological behavior, which resulted in the enhanced miscibility in reactive blends.


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