【Mater Design】Effect of a dual compatibilizer on the formation of co-continuous morphology of immiscible polymer blends
作者：Changjiang Yu, Dean Shi*, Jiang Wang, Hengchong Shi*, Tao Jiang, Yingkui Yang, Guo-Hua Hu*,
關鍵字：dual compatibilizer, in situ-formed graft copolymer, co-continuous morphology
論文來源：期刊
發表時間：2016年
This work aims at investigating the effect of a dual compatibilizer on the formation of co-continuous morphology of immiscible polymer blends. More specifically, the blend is composed of polystyrene (PS) and polyamide 6 (PA6), and the dual compatibilizer is composed of a low molecular weight styrene-co-maleic anhydride copolymer (Mw = 11 500 g/mol, maleic anhydride MAH content = 14 wt.%) denoted as lSMA and a high molecular weight SMA denoted as hSMA. The latter has a Mw of 250 000 g/mol and a MAH content of 8 wt.% (hSMA1) or a Mw of 110 000 g/mol and a MAH content of 23 wt.% (hSMA2). When the PA6 is the minor phase, the morphology of the PS/PA6 blend is co-continuous using the lSMA-hSMA (hSMA can be hSMA1 or hSMA2) dual compatibilizer. However, when the PA6 is the major phase, its morphology is co-continuous only for the lSMA-hSMA2 dual compatibilizer and not for the lSMA-hSMA1 one. This could be due to fewer PA6 grafts in the in-situ formed hSMA1-g-PA6 graft copolymer and consequently less entanglements of the PA6 grafts with the PA6 major phase compared to the in-situ formed hSMA2-g-PA6 graft copolymer.