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The dynamic properties, temperature transitions, and thermal stability of poly (etherether ketone)‐thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer blends
Author(s) -
Mehta Atul,
Isayev A. I.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.760311306
Subject(s) - thermotropic crystal , differential scanning calorimetry , materials science , glass transition , composite material , polymer , thermal stability , dynamic mechanical analysis , chemical engineering , thermodynamics , liquid crystalline , physics , engineering
Differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mechanical measurements, and thermal gravimetric analysis techniques have been used to thermally characterize blends of poly(etherether ketone)‐thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) based on hydroxybenzoic and hydroxynaphthoic acid (HBA/HNA). Based upon differential scanning calorimetry and dynamic mechanical measurements, these blends have been shown to be incompatible in the entire range of concentration. For these blends the glass transition temperature of both components does not change much with composition. Dynamic mechanical measurements performed under torsional and flexural modes of testing and different samples geometries indicate that the dynamic properties depend a lot on the above two factors. Anisotropy in these blends was studied by performing dynamic measurements in flow and transverse directions. The effect of orientation is found to be predominant. Dynamic mechanical properties tend to improve in the flow direction, whereas in the transverse direction they are found to decrease with increasing LCP concentration.