Polymer blends: fundamentals

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4421-6_81
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Industrial Materials Institute
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Book titlePolypropylene
Series titlePolymer Science and Technology Series; no. 2
ISSN0093-6286
ISBN978-94-010-5899-5
978-94-011-4421-6
Pages601–605
Abstract
A polymer blend is a mixture of at least two macromolecular substances, polymers or copolymers, in which the concentration of each polymeric ingredient is above 2 wt.%. Blends are either miscible or immiscible [1], The miscible polymer blends are homogeneous down to the molecular level. Their free energy and heat of mixing, ΔGm ≅ ΔH m≤0 and ∂2ΔGm/φ>2>0, where φ is the volume fraction. In these blends, the domain size is comparable to the dimension of the macromolecular statistical segment, d<20 nm. The immiscible polymer blends are those where ΔGm>0, and/or ∂2ΔG m/∂φ2<0. Most polymer blends are immiscible.
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