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Compatibility of poly(butadiene‐ co ‐acrylonitrile) with poly( L ‐lactide) and poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate‐ co ‐3‐hydroxyvalerate)
Author(s) -
Park EunSoo,
Kim Hye Kyung,
Shim Jae Hun,
Kim Hun Sik,
Jang Lee Wook,
Yoon JinSan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.20356
Subject(s) - acrylonitrile , materials science , elongation , ultimate tensile strength , glass transition , composite material , polymer blend , crystallization , polymer chemistry , dynamic mechanical analysis , young's modulus , polymer , copolymer , chemical engineering , engineering
Abstract Poly( L ‐lactide) (PLLA) and poly(3‐hydrobutyrate‐ co ‐3‐hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) were blended with poly(butadiene‐ co ‐acrylonitrile) (NBR). Both PLLA/NBR and PHBV/NBR blends exhibited higher tensile properties as the content of acrylonitrile unit (AN) of NBR increased from 22 to 50 wt %. However, two separate glass transition temperatures ( T g ) appeared in PLLA/NBR blends irrespective of the content of NBR, revealing that PLLA was incompatible with NBR. In contrast, a single T g , which shifted along with the blend composition, was observed for PHBV/NBR50 blends. Moreover NBR50 suppressed the crystallization of PHBV, indicating that PHBV was compatible with NBR50. Decrease of both elongation modulus and stress at maximum load was less significant and increase of elongation at break was more pronounced in PHBV/NBR50 blends than in PLLA/NBR50 blends. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 92: 3508–3513, 2004