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The performance and morphology of PMMA/SAN/ABS blends

  • Dan Chen , Fupeng Zhu , Tingting Zhou , Mingyao Zhang EMAIL logo and Huixuan Zhang
Published/Copyright: August 15, 2015
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Journal of Polymer Engineering
From the journal Journal of Polymer Engineering Volume 36 Issue 3

Abstract

Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) graft copolymers were synthesized via seeded emulsion polymerization techniques by grafting styrene (St) and acrylonitrile (AN) on polybutadiene (PB) particles. Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN)/ABS blends were prepared by melt blending ABS graft copolymers with PMMA and SAN resins. The properties, morphology and grafted chains behaviors of PMMA/SAN/ABS blends were investigated. The results showed that with the increase of the ratio of PMMA/SAN, the toughness of PMMA/SAN/ABS blends slightly decreased, the transmittance first increased and then decreased, and tensile strength was not dependent on the ratio of PMMA/SAN. The evolution of impact strength of the blends was similar with the tendency of grafted degree (GD) with the increase of cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) and tert-dodecyl mercaptan (TDDM). From transmission electron microscopy (TEM), it was found that ABS graft copolymers were uniformly dispersed in PMMA/SAN matrix.

Keywords: ABS graft copolymers; grafted chain behaviors; TEM; toughness; transmittance
Corresponding author: Mingyao Zhang, School of Chemical Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China, e-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors appreciate the financial support of the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (no. 51273026).

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Received: 2014-7-31
Accepted: 2015-7-10
Published Online: 2015-8-15
Published in Print: 2016-4-1

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https://doi.org/10.1515/polyeng-2014-0209
Keywords for this article
ABS graft copolymers; grafted chain behaviors; TEM; toughness; transmittance

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