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The influence of PET radiation graft copolymer on the mechanical properties of toughened PET/elastomer blend

  • 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)

Description

The key point to improve the integrative properties of toughened poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET)/elastomer blend is enhancing the phase interface compatibility between PET and elastomer. In this work, we utilize γ-ray simultaneous irradiation technique to induce the graft copolymerization of acrylic acid (AA) onto PET resinand studied the influence of the radiation graft copolymer PET-g-PAA on the mechanical properties of PET/ ethylene-methyl acrylate-glycidyl methacrylate blends. The SEM images of the PET/ST-2000/PET-g-PAA blends show a better interfacial adhesion between the PET matrix and the elastomer, compared with that of pure PET/ST-2000 blends. At the same time, the impact strength of PET/ST-2000 has also been improved after PET-g-PAA is added. When PET-g-PAA is added in a range of 6-9 wt%, the integrative mechanical properties of the PET/ST-2000/PET-g-PAA blends can maintain at a better level. It indicated that the side poly (acrylic acid) chains on the backbone of the PET/PET-g-PAA can react with the elastomer, which makes the PET-g-PAA act as a compatiblizer of the PET and the elastomer and enhance the compatibility of the PET phase and the elastomer phase, and further improve the toughening effect of elastomer. (authors)

Part of:
Progress report on nuclear science and technology in China (Vol.1). Proceedings of academic annual meeting of China Nuclear Society in 2009, No.8--radiation research and radiation technology

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Atomic Energy Press
Imprint Place
Beijing (China)
ISBN
978-7-5022-5040-9
Imprint Title
Progress report on nuclear science and technology in China (Vol.1). Proceedings of academic annual meeting of China Nuclear Society in 2009, No.8--radiation research and radiation technology
Imprint Pagination
289 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 180-185

Conference

Title
academic annual meeting of China Nuclear Society
Acronym
'09
Dates
18-20 Nov 2009
Place
Beijing (China)

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