Zk. Zhong et al., BLENDS OF POLY(VINYL CHLORIDE) WITH ACRYLONITRILE-CHLORINATED POLYETHYLENE-STYRENE COPOLYMER .1. MISCIBILITY, PHASE-BEHAVIOR, AND THERMAL-PROPERTIES, Journal of macromolecular science. Physics, 36(4), 1997, pp. 441-454
Blends of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and acrylonitrile-chlorinated pol
yethylene-styrene (ACS) copolymer were prepared by melt blending. Misc
ibility, phase behavior, and thermal stability were studied using diff
erential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM
), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The DSC study showed that the
blends have three glass transition temperatures (T-g). The blends exh
ibit a three-phase structure; a chlorinated polyethylene (CPE) rubbery
phase was found to be dispersed in a continuous matrix consisting of
both PVC-rich and SAN-rich phases. The interfaces between any two of t
he three phases are well bonded. PVC is immiscible with CPE in ACS but
partially miscible with poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN with 25%
AN content) in ACS. From the T-g data, the SAN appears to dissolve mor
e in the PVC-rich phase than does the PVC in the SAN-rich phase. The a
pparent polymer-polymer interaction parameter [(chi(12))(app)] for the
pair PVC/SAN was calculated to be 0.0055 at 170 degrees C. TGA analys
is revealed that there exists interaction during the degradation of th
e two polymers in the blends.