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Co‐Continuous Polymeric Nanostructures via Simple Melt Mixing of PS/PMMA
Author(s) -
Pu Gongwei,
Luo Yingwu,
Lou Qianchuan,
Li Bogeng
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200800579
Subject(s) - materials science , polystyrene , copolymer , methyl methacrylate , morphology (biology) , mixing (physics) , polymer chemistry , phase (matter) , chemical engineering , nanostructure , composite material , polymer , nanotechnology , chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , engineering , genetics
Blends of polystyrene/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PS/PMMA) (30/70) prepared by simple melt mixing form a droplet (PS) in‐matrix (PMMA) morphology. It is found that addition of a carefully designed copolymer PS‐ b ‐P(S‐ ran ‐MMA) (SSM) compatibilizer could convert the morphology into a co‐continuous system. Indeed, the continuity of the dispersed PS phase increased with an increase in PS‐ b ‐P(S‐ ran ‐MMA) content, and a fully co‐continuous morphology (continuity = 100%) was obtained at 20% SSM fraction with a characteristic size of 100 nm.
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