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Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends
Polycarbonate (PC), an engineering plastic, has excellent mechanical strength and toughness. Moreover, this transparent polymer material can be used in fields where materials require mechanical properties and transparency. Nevertheless, PC is known to have a high melt viscosity. Moreover, blending w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9959465/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36837166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16041536 |
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description | Polycarbonate (PC), an engineering plastic, has excellent mechanical strength and toughness. Moreover, this transparent polymer material can be used in fields where materials require mechanical properties and transparency. Nevertheless, PC is known to have a high melt viscosity. Moreover, blending with polystyrene (PS), an inherently brittle material, has been used to adjust its melt viscosity. As a result, the PS makes PC/PS polymer blends more brittle than PC alone. As described herein, after attempting to achieve compatibility with inorganic particles, the results show that the dispersion of small amounts of inorganic clay and silica particles in PC/PS polymer blends maintained transparency while improving the impact strength to a level comparable to that of polycarbonate. Apparently, the inorganic particles promote the fine dispersion of PS. Moreover, the spherical morphology of the inorganic particles is more effective at compatibilizing the polymer blend because the inorganic particles can apply isotropic interaction forces. |
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spelling | pubmed-99594652023-02-26 Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends Takayama, Tetsuo Materials (Basel) Article Polycarbonate (PC), an engineering plastic, has excellent mechanical strength and toughness. Moreover, this transparent polymer material can be used in fields where materials require mechanical properties and transparency. Nevertheless, PC is known to have a high melt viscosity. Moreover, blending with polystyrene (PS), an inherently brittle material, has been used to adjust its melt viscosity. As a result, the PS makes PC/PS polymer blends more brittle than PC alone. As described herein, after attempting to achieve compatibility with inorganic particles, the results show that the dispersion of small amounts of inorganic clay and silica particles in PC/PS polymer blends maintained transparency while improving the impact strength to a level comparable to that of polycarbonate. Apparently, the inorganic particles promote the fine dispersion of PS. Moreover, the spherical morphology of the inorganic particles is more effective at compatibilizing the polymer blend because the inorganic particles can apply isotropic interaction forces. MDPI 2023-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9959465/ /pubmed/36837166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16041536 Text en © 2023 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Takayama, Tetsuo Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends |
title | Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends |
title_full | Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends |
title_fullStr | Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends |
title_full_unstemmed | Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends |
title_short | Inorganic Particles Contribute to the Compatibility of Polycarbonate/Polystyrene Polymer Blends |
title_sort | inorganic particles contribute to the compatibility of polycarbonate/polystyrene polymer blends |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9959465/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36837166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16041536 |
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