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Photocrosslinking kinetics of polymer blends undergoing spinodal decomposition process

✍ Scribed by N. Kawazoe; A. Imagawa; T. Tamai; Q. Tran-Cong


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
227 KB
Volume
67
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8995

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✦ Synopsis


Photocrosslinking reaction kinetics of poly(2-chlorostyrene) performed inside the spinodal region of poly(2-chlorostyrene)/poly(vinyl methyl ether) (P2CS/ PVME) blends was investigated by means of ultraviolet (UV)-visible absorption spectroscopy. The reaction was performed via photodimerization of anthracene moieties chemically labeled on the P2CS chains. The crosslinking kinetics of (P2CS/PVME) blends submitted to a temperature jump from the one-phase into the spinodal regions was observed by monitoring the irradiation time dependence of the absorbances of anthracene as well as of the blend in two regions of wavelengths. One is inside and the other is outside the absorption range of anthracene. The contribution of the sample cloudiness to the absorbance of anthracene was subtracted from the absorption data by using an empirical power law experimentally established between the incident wavelengths and the absorption of the blends. It was found that the reaction kinetics approximately follows the mean-field kinetics inside the spinodal region, resembling the behavior of the crosslinking reaction performed in the miscible region at relatively low crosslinking densities. On the other hand, the method described here fails to estimate the crosslinking densities when the phase separation proceeds rapidly, overcoming the reaction.


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