MISCIBILITY IN BLENDS OF PVME WITH STYRENE-BASED BLOCK-COPOLYMERS

Authors
LEE HK KANG CK ZIN WC
Citation
Hk. Lee et al., MISCIBILITY IN BLENDS OF PVME WITH STYRENE-BASED BLOCK-COPOLYMERS, Polymer, 38(7), 1997, pp. 1595-1600
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Polymer → ACNP
ISSN journal
00323861
Volume
38
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1595 - 1600
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-3861(1997)38:7<1595:MIBOPW>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The phase behaviours in binary blends of styrene-isoprene diblock copo lymer and poly(vinyl methyl ether) (PVME) were investigated by using s mall-angle X-ray and light scattering techniques. It was observed that the added homopolymer molecules were dissolved into the microdomains of the styrene blocks of the copolymer. The blends exhibited a lower c ritical solution temperature as seen in the blends of PVME with polyst yrene. The experimental results were compared with that of the modifie d Meier's theory in a semiquantitative way. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.