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Polymer Bulletin, Vol.31, No.6, 729-736, 1993
The Effect of Replacing the Alpha-Hydrogen with a Methyl-Group on the Miscibility of Systems Containing Styrene, Methacrylonitrile and Methyl-Methacrylate
The phase boundaries as a function of copolymer composition have been established in one polymer/copolymer and two copolymer/copolymer blend systems involving the repeat unit methacrylonitrile. Using the critical conditions for miscibility according to the Flory-Huggins theory, and an overall blend interaction parameter (B(blend)) expressed in terms of repeat unit interactions B(i-j), values of B(S-MAN) and B(MMA-MAN) have been determined. These are compared with the corresponding acrylonitrile interactions.
Keywords:PHASE-BEHAVIOR;POLY(2;6-DIMETHYL-1;4-PHENYLENE OXIDE);POLYMER BLENDS;POLY(STYRENE-CO-ACRYLONITRILE);POLYSTYRENE;COPOLYMERS;GUIDE