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Title: | Transmission electron microscopy study of phase morphology in polypropylene/ethylene-octene copolymer blends | ||||||||||
Author: | Svoboda (FT), Petr; Svobodová, Dagmar; Ougizawa, Toshiaki; Inoue, Takashi; Slobodian, Petr | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | European Polymer Journal. 2009, vol. 45, issue 5, p. 1485-1492 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0014-3057 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.01.032 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | Blends of polypropylene (PP) and ethylene-octene copolymers (EOC) were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The EOC contained 28, 37, 40 or 52 wt.% of octene. Only the 50/50 PP/EOC ratio was used for all blends. None of the blends was fully miscible, there was always two-phase morphology. TEM observation followed by image analysis by ImageJ software revealed that the largest particles were in blend containing EOC-28 and the smallest were in blend with EOC-52. The coarsening rate at 200°C was evaluated by TEM. The glass transition temperature (Tg) shift indicated partial miscibility. Partial miscibility was then confirmed by direct observation of bright PP lamellae in EOC dark phase. | ||||||||||
Full text: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014305709000378 | ||||||||||
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