Probing the structure of polymer blends by vibrational spectroscopy: the case of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(methyl methacrylate) blends

Miscibility and spherulite growth kinetics in the poly(ethylene oxide)/poly(benzyl methacrylate) system

“…As the intermolecular interaction (PBzMA-PEO) was not any stronger than that between the same PBzMA molecules or the same PEO molecules, no shifting of the functional groups could be expected. This observation of a lack of any specific interactions is similar to the widely studied PEO-PMMA blend system on which Martuscelli et al 22 performed an IR study and concluded that inter-MISCIBILITY IN PEO/PBZMA molecular interactions between molecules of PEO and PMMA in blends are very weak and their miscibility depends only "physical" van der Waals interactions and that specific interactions in PEO-PMMA are nonexistent. This is also true in the PEO/PBzMA blend system.…”

Phase equilibrium in blends of crystalline poly(ethylene oxide) - amorphous poly(methyl acrylate) or poly(methyl methacrylate)

“…It is known 9,10,14 that interaction between PEO and amorphous poly(acrylate)s depends on intermolecular dipole contacts of a carbon atom in the carbonyl group of PMA and PMMA and an oxygen atom of PEO. Obviously, different phase diagrams of these systems are due to the difference in glass transition temperature T g of these polymers (see Table 1).…”

Polymer blends of stereoregular poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(styrene-co-p-hydroxystyrene)

“…Because of its availability in both syndiotactic and isotactic forms, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) has been used frequently in the investigation of the effect of tacticity on miscibility. Several articles [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] have shown that the tacticity of PMMA influences blend compatibility, when PMMA is blended with a chemically different polymer. Because of differences in the molecular weights and the preparation methods of samples, the results are sometimes inconsistent.…”