Abstract:Reactive polymer blending is basically a flow/mixing-driven process of
interfacial generation, interfacial reaction for copolymer formation and
morphology development. This work shows two antagonistic effects of
mixing on this process: while mixing promotes copolymer formation by
creating interfaces and enhancing collisions between reactive groups at
the interfaces, excessive mixing may pull the in-situ formed copolymer
out of the interfaces to one of the two polymer components of the blend,
especially when th… Show more
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