Optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and small-angle X-ray scattering techniques were used to study the influence of crystallization conditions on the morphology and thermal behavior of samples of ternary blends constituted by isotactic polypropylene (iPP), atactic polystyrene (aPS
Isotactic polypropylene/polystyrene blends: Effects of the addition of a graft copolymer of propylene with styrene
โ Scribed by L. D'orazio; R. Guarino; C. Mancarella; E. Martuscelli; G. Cecchin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 758 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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โฆ Synopsis
A novel graft copolymer of unsaturated propylene with styrene (uPP-g-PS) was added to binary blends of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) and atactic polystyrene (aPS) with a view to using such a copolymer as compatibilizer for iPP/aPS materials. Differential scanning calorimetry, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), wide angle X-ray scattering, and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) techniques have been carried out to investigate the phase morphology and structure developed in solution-cast samples of iPP/aPS/uPP-g-PS ternary blends. It was found that the uPP-g-PS addition can provide iPP/aPS-compatibilized materials and that the extent of the achieved compatibilization is composition-dependent. Blends of iPP and aPS exhibited a coarse domain morphology that is characteristic of immiscible polymer systems. By adding 2% (wt/wt) of uPP-g-PS copolymer a very broad particle-size distribution was obtained, even though the particles appeared coated by a smooth interfacial layer, as expected according to a core-shell interfacial model. With increasing uPP-g-PS content (5% wt/wt), a finer dispersion degree of particles, together with morphological evidence of interfacial adhesion, was found. With further increase of uPP-g-PS amount (10% wt/wt) the material showed such a homogeneous texture that neither domains of dispersed phase nor holes could be clearly detected by SEM. The type of interface developed in such iPP/aPS/uPP-g-PS blends was accounted for by an interfacial interpenetration model. The iPP crystalline texture, size, neatness, and regularity of iPP spherulites crystallized from iPP/aPS/uPP-g-PS blends were found to decrease when the copolymer content was slightly increased. Assuming, for the iPP spherulite fibrillae, a two-phase model constituted by alternating parallel crystalline lamellae and amorphous layers, it was shown by SAXS that the phase structure generated in iPP/ aPS/uPP-g-PS blends is characterized by crystalline lamellar thickness (L c ) and interlamellar amorphous layer thickness ( L a ) higher than that shown by plain iPP; the higher the copolymer content, the higher the L c and L a . It should be remarked that considerably larger increases have been found in L a values. Such SAXS results have been accounted for by assuming that a cocrystallization phenomenon between propylenic sequences of the uPP-g-PS copolymer and iPP occurs and that during such a process PS chains grafted into copolymer sequences remain entrapped in iPP interlamellar amorphous layers, where they form their own separate domains.
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