Ternary blends of PPO/AES/PS : study of the miscibility, compatibility and photooxidative stability / Blendas ternarias PPO/AES/PS : estudo da miscibilidade, compatibilidade e estabilidade fotooxidativa

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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The aim of this work was to prepare and to evaluate the PPO/AES/PS ternary blends behavior with respect to miscibility, compatibility, mechanical properties and photochemical stability aspects, as well as to compare these properties to the PPO/HIPS blends. In this work, the PPO/AES/PS ternary blends were obtained from the melt mixture PS, polystyrene, PPO, poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide), AES, a thermoplastic elastomer constituted by a grafting of SAN, poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile), on EPDM, a poly(ethylene-co-propylene-co-diene) elastomer.Three series of the ternary blends containing 40, 50 and 60 % of PPO were prepared. In each ternary blends series the AES?s mass fraction variation was 10, 15, 20 and 30 %. To perform a comparative study, the binary blends PPO/AES, PPO/PS and AES/PS, with composition 50/50%, and the PPO/HIPS binary blend with the same PPO?s contents that the ternary blends, were also prepared. The dynamical mechanical analysis of the ternary blends showed a complex phases behavior, with the EDPM elastomeric phase dispersed in a matrix constituted by several phases, one of them the miscible blend PPO/PS. Such behavior is due to the fact that PPO and PS blends are miscible blends, while PS is only miscible with SAN when it contains less than 10 % wt of acrylonitrile and PPO/SAN blends are also miscible if the acrylonitrile composition is less than 5 wt %. The ternary blends presents mechanical properties dependent on the blend AES content. The increase in the AES content in the blends resulted in a significative increase in the impact resistance and a slight drop in the modulus and tensile resistence. However, only some compositions showed better mechanical performance than PPO/HIPS blends. Accelerated aging showed that the ternary blends are more stable than the PPO/HIPS blends that present an unsaturated elastomeric phase

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miscibilidade blendas - propriedades mecanicas envelhecimento blend miscibility aging

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