Showing papers on "Miscibility published in 1988"

Solubility and miscibility of poly(ethyl oxazoline)

Abstract: The solubility of poly(ethyl oxazoline) in aqueous solutions was studied. The cloud point temperatures decreased in the presence of sodium chloride but increased by the addition of tetrabutylammonium bromide or dioxane. Solution-cast films of blends of the polymer and poly(acrylic acid) were miscible, but mutual precipitation occurred in water, methanol, and dioxane. The compositions of the complexes correspond in most cases to simple molar ratios of the interacting groups. The glass transition temperatures of the complexes are higher than the values for blends of the same compositions, and the high values are attributed to hydrogen bonds acting as physical crosslinks. Complex formation also occurs when the polymer is mixed with a styrene-acrylic acid copolymer and with low weight polymers containing phenol groups.

Analysis of the glass transition temperature of miscible polymer blends

Abstract: Etude theorique de la relation temperature de transition vitreuse-composition des melanges de polycaprolactone/polymere chlore

Polymer-Polymer Miscibility and Enthalpy Relaxations

Abstract: Annealing of polymers below the glass transition temperature results in a decrease in enthalpy that is recovered during heating. The enthalpy recovery is visible as an endothermic peak in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) scan. The position of this peak depends on the thermal treatment given and on the structure of the material itself. Because different polymers behave differently, the phenomenon can be utilized to investigate polymel-polymer miscibility of polymers with similar Tg values. Therefore, by annealing the blends at the temperature of interest and subsequent sub-T, annealing, one can monitor phase behavior resulting from the initial treatment by inspection of the enthalpy recovery. Two systems were investigated to illustrate this: an immiscible blend of poly(viny1 chloride) and poly(isopropy1 methacrylate) and a miscible blend of poly(viny1 chloride) and poly(methy1 methacrylate).

Characteristics of hydroxybenzoic acid‐ethylene terephthalate copolymers and their blends with polystyrene, polycarbonate, and polyethylene terephthalate

Abstract: We present a basic study of the thermal, dielectric, Theological, and mechanical properties of hydroxybenzoic acid-ethylene terephthalate copolymers (PHB-PET). It is argued that they have two-phase structures, one rich in ethylene terephthalate (PET) and one rich in hydroxybenzoic acid (PHB). Polystyrene (PS) is immiscible in 60% PHB-PET (60-PHB-PET) blends. Polycarbonate (PC) is partially miscible with the high PET phase of 60-PHB-PET. PET seems completely miscible with this high PET phase. Shear viscosity measurements on blends indicate that 60-PHB-PET gives rise to large reductions of viscosity. Extrudates and melt-spun fibers have been prepared. The phase morphologies of low PHB-PET blends as determined by scanning electron microscopy indicate ellipsoids or long fibrils of the, 60-PHB-PET in PS or PC matrices. High extrusion rates and melt spinning produce fibrillar structures. The mechanical properties of films, extrudates, and melt-spun fibers were studied. Blends with 10% 60-PHB-PET exhibited significant increases in Young's modulus and tensile strength.

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of some miscible polybenzimidazole/polyimide blends

Abstract: La miscibilite de ces melanges provient d'interactions intermoleculaires specifiques mettant en jeu des groupes >NH et carbonyl

Effect of crosslinks on the phase separation behavior of a miscible polymer blend

Abstract: Melange polystyrene deuterie-poly(vinyl methyl ether), etudie par diffusion neutronique aux petits angles. Influence de la reticulation par les rayons γ

Influence of head-group interactions on the miscibility of synthetic, stereochemically pure glycolipids and phospholipids.

Abstract: Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of the glycoglycerolipids 1,2-di-O-tetradecyl-3-O-beta-D-galactosyl-sn-glycerol (14-Gal) and 1,2-di-O-tetradecyl-3-O-beta-D-glucosyl-sn-glycerol (14-Glc) with the phospholipids L-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and L-dimyristoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DMPE) were recorded by high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry and used for determination of the glycolipid-phospholipid miscibility in solid and liquid-crystalline states. As a consequence of a metastable behavior of both glycolipids and DMPE, the solid-state glycolipid/phospholipid miscibility was strongly dependent on the temperature prehistory of the samples. While DMPC and 14-Glc mix continuously, the other three binaries display extended regions of solid-solid-phase separation in the equilibrium low-temperature states. The DMPE/glycolipid phase diagrams were of clearly expressed eutectic type. Continuous solutions were formed in the liquid-crystalline and in the metastable solid phases of the mixtures. Simulations of the shape of the phase diagrams using the Bragg-Williams approximation showed certain deviations from ideal mixing in the liquid-crystalline continuous solutions. Since both glycolipids and phospholipids contain fully saturated fatty acids of equal chain length, their mixing properties were predominantly determined by the interactions between the lipid polar moieties, assuming the influence of ester or either linkages of the alkyl chains on the mixing parameters to be negligible. The clearly expressed differences in the mixing of 14-Glc and 14-Gal with phospholipids are most probably due to different hydrogen-bond networks formed by the glucosyl and galactosyl residues.

Miscibility of polyester/nitrocellulose blends: a DSC and FTIR study

Abstract: The miscibility of polyester/nitrocellulose blends was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Two nitrocelluloses (NC) derived from wood and having different nitrogen contents (12.62 and 13.42%) were used. On the basis of the glass transition temperature criterion, poly(ϵ-caprolactone) (PCL), poly(valerolactone), poly(ethylene adipate), and poly(butylene adipate) are miscible with nitrocellulose, whereas poly(α-methyl α-propyl β-propiolactone) and poly(α-methyl β-proiolactone) are immiscible. The Tg versus composition curves of PCL/NC blends do not follow a monotone function but exhibit a singular point at a critical PCL volume fraction of 0.51 for NC-1342 and 0.45 for NC-1262 in agreement with Kovacs' theory. A shift of 17 cm-1 of the carbonyl stretching band was observed with PCL/NC blends and is taken as evidence for hydrogen bonding interaction between the PCL carbonyl group and NC hydroxyl group. The frequency difference between the free hydroxyl absorbance and the absorbances of the hydrogen-bonded species was found to be 85 cm-1 in pure NC and 125 cm-1 in PCL/NC blends; it indicates that the average strength of this interaction is stronger than the corresponding self-associated hydrogen bonding in pure NC. The presence of a dipole-dipole interaction between the nitrate-ester groups of NC and the carbonyl groups of the polyesters is reported. The relative strength of the hydrogen bonding and dipole-dipole interactions is discussed and correlated with polymer miscibility.

Miscibility mapping in some blends involving poly(styrene‐co‐acrylonitrile)

Abstract: Previsions de la miscibilite de melanges de copolymeres a partir des parametres d'interaction en fonction de la composition

Miscibility of phenolphthalein poly(ether ether ketone) with poly(hydroxy ether of bisphenol A) and polysulfone

Abstract: A novel poly(ether ether ketone) (PEK-C) from phenolphthalein was found to be miscible with poly(hydroxy ether of bisphenol A) (phenoxy) as shown by the existence of a single glass transition temperature (Tg) in each blend. A FTi.r. study revealed that a hydrogen-bonding interaction occurs between these two polymeric components and its strength is weaker than that in pure phenoxy. FEK-C was judged to be miscible with polysulfone based on the existence of a single composition-dependent glass transition temperature.

Miscible polybenzimidazole blends with a benzophenone‐based polyimide

Abstract: Miscible blends of the aromatic polybenzimidazole, poly(2,2(m-phenylene)-5,5′-benzimidazole) (PBI), and the aromatic polyimide formed from 3,3′,4,4′-benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride and 3,3′-diaminobenzophenone (LaRC TPI) have been prepared. Blends with PBI were prepared in N,N-dimethylacetamide solution starting with either the polyamic acid or a 95% imidized form of LaRC TPI; the blend was then precipitated into water or cast as films. The mixture was then imidized thermally to obtain PBI/LaRC TPI blends. Evidence for miscibility was obtained in the form of single composition dependent Tg's intermediate between those of the component polymers and single tan δ dynamic mechanical relaxation peaks. The IR spectra displayed shifts in the NH stretching band, thereby providing evidence for specific interactions related to the miscibility of these two polymers.

An analysis of flow-induced miscibility of polymer blends

Abstract: The phase behavior of blends of polystyrene and poly(vinyl methyl ether) undergoing shearing flow was examined. Experiments conducted at a constant level of flow-induced strain found that such flow elevates the phase boundary and pro-motes miscibility. In the framework of the Cahn-Hilliard model for spinodal decomposition, an expression was developed which predicts the effect of an external flow field on the spinodal. The basis for this expression is the minimization of strain energy in a two-component polymer system that is in a thermodynamic state near its phase-separation point. The zero shear viscosities of the blends were measured and demonstrated to be an indication of one- or two-phase flow.

Phase equilibrium in the binary and ternary blend system: Polycaprolactone‐polyvinyl chloride‐styrene acrylonitrile copolymer

Abstract: An experimental study of binary and ternary phase equilibrium in the system polycaprolactone (PCL) poly(vi-nylchloride) (PVC)-77/23 styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN) is described. Miscibility is determined using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and turbidity. PCL/PVC and PCL/SAN are largely miscible systems but PVC/SAN is immiscible. The ternary system shows considerable miscibility. The blends are characterized by polarized light microscopy and wide-angle X-ray diffraction. The former measurement characterizes the structure of the spherulites. Additions of PVC, SAN, or PVC/SAN causes the spherulites observed in PCL to grow in size and become coarse. X-ray diffraction shows no movement of crystallographic peaks indicating the crystallographic unit cell is composed of PCL. Melting point depression measurements are used to calculate Flory χ interaction parameters for PCL/PVC and PCL/SAN. The melting point depression is also considered and used to investigate PVC/SAN interaction. An effort is made to compute the ternary phase diagram and tie lines.