Effect of morphology on shear viscosity for binary blends of polycarbonate and polystyrene

Autor: Hiraoka Tatsuhiro, Misaki Yamaguchi, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takumi Sako, Yuki Tanaka
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 137:49516
ISSN: 1097-4628
0021-8995
Popis: The structure and rheological properties of binary blends of polycarbonate (PC) and polystyrene (PS) were investigated using various PS samples with different molecular weights, namely PS1k (M_w = 1000), PS53k (M_w = 53000), and PS240k (M_w = 240000). The blends with PS53k and PS240k show phase-separated structures, whereas the blend with PS1k is miscible. The shear viscosity decreases greatly on addition of PS53k and PS240k, especially at high shear rates, which would be a great advantage at processing operations. Because the non-linear response occurs in the small strain region for multilayered films of PC and PS240k, the origin of the significant viscosity drop for the phase-separated system is interfacial slippage at the phase boundary.
Databáze: OpenAIRE