Ring-banded spherulite surface structure of poly(ε-caprolactone) in its miscible mixtures with poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile)

✍ Scribed by Zhigang Wang; Lijia An; Wei Jiang; Bingzheng Jiang; Xuehui Wang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 682 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-6266
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0488(19990915)37:18<2682::aid-polb12>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

The surface structure of the ring-banded spherulites in polymer blends PCL/SAN (90/10) was studied by optical microscopy, SEM, and TEM, respectively. It is interesting to find that the surface structure of the ring-banded spherulites in polymer blends PCL/SAN (90/10) is made up of the convex bands. The landscape of the convex bands on the surface has been little emphasized before. Radial fibrils are arranged on the bands. Details of the radial fibrils on the bands can be observed by TEM. The landscape of the convex bands on the surface and twisting of lamellae in the convex bands for PCL/SAN blends may be useful to explain the formation mechanism of the ring banded spherulites in polymer blends or even in homopolymers.