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Title: | Phase separation and phase dissolution in poly(-caprolactone)/ poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) blend | ||||||||||
Author: | Svoboda (FT), Petr; Svobodová, Dagmar; Měřínská, Dagmar; Iizuka, Yukiko; Ougizawa, Toshiaki; Inoue, Takashi; Slobodian, Petr | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | European Polymer Journal. 2009, vol. 45, issue 8, p. 2434-2442 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0014-3057 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.04.027 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | A blend of poly(?-caprolactone) (PCL) and poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN) containing 27.5 wt% of acrylonitrile having the critical composition (80/20 PCL/SAN) was studied. This PCL/SAN blend having a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase boundary at 122°C offered an excellent opportunity to investigate, firstly the kinetics of phase separation above LCST (125-180°C), and secondly the kinetics of phase dissolution below LCST (50-115°C). The blend underwent a temperature-jump above LCST where spinodal decomposition (SD) proceeded, yielding a regularly phase-separated structure (SD structure). Then, it was quenched to the temperatures below LCST when the phase dissolution proceeded. Optical microscopy was used to observe the spinodal decomposition qualitatively while light scattering was used to characterize the phase separation and phase dissolution quantitatively. It was found that during phase dissolution the peak maximum moved towards a smaller angle (wavelength of concentration fluctuations increases) while the peak intensity decreased. This behavior was described by a model and verified by transmission electron microscopy. Also it was found that the fastest phase dissolution kinetics at 80°C, which was characterized by an apparent diffusion coefficient, was about 10 times slower than the kinetics of phase separation at 180°C. | ||||||||||
Full text: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014305709001797 | ||||||||||
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