In this paper, intercalation of nanoclay in the miscible polymer blend of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and acrylic rubber(ACM) was studied. X-ray diffraction was used to investigate the formation of nanoscale polymer blend/clay hybrid. Infrared spectroscopy and X-ray analysis revealed the coexistence of β and γ crystalline forms in PVDF/Clay nanocomposite while α crystalline form was found ...

Correction for ‘Twisted-graphene-like perylene diimide with dangling functional chromophores as tunable small-molecule acceptors in binary-blend active layers of organic photovoltaics’ by Yu-Che Lin et al. , J. Mater. Chem. A 2021, DOI: 10.1039/d1ta05697b.

This paper investigates the influence of recombination and selfadaptation in real-encoded Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGAs). NSGA-II and SPEA2 are used as example to characterize the efficiency of MOGAs in relation to various recombination operators. The blend crossover, the simulated binary crossover and the breeder genetic crossover are compared for both MOGAs on multi-objective prob...

We present a theoretical description of interdiffusion in a binary blend of polymers that exhibit polydispersity in length. The diffusion equations are formulated in terms of the volume fractions and the chain concentrations of the components. This choice of variables is equivalent to the assumption that the local molecular weight distributions of the components are described by the Flory distr...

The existence of a transient period during the surface enrichment of a binary polymer blend by one of its components has been suggested by previous theoretical and experimental studies as well as computer simulations. Taking advantage of the high depth resolution of neutron reflectivity and the slow dynamics of polymers near their glass transition, we investigate this early-stage surface compos...

A binary blend of polycaprolactone and starch in 70:30 weight ratio (known under the tradename “Envar”) was blended in various weight ratios with organosolv lignin (L) and organosolv lignin butyrate (LB) by solvent casting and melt blending. The thermal transitions observed by DSC revealed behavior resembling that of native polycaprolactone (PCL). Depression in melting temperatures obtained by ...

In this study, we investigated the miscibility behavior and mechanism of interaction of poly(methyl mechacrylate) (PMMA), poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) PVP, and PMMA- co-PVP blends with octa(phenol)octasilsequioxane (OP-POSS). For the PMMA/OP-POSS binary blend, the value of the association constant ( K A = 29) was smaller than that in the poly(vinyl phenol) (PVPh)/PMMA ( K A = 37.4) and ethyl phenol ...

Combustion profiles determined by TGA and experiments in a laminar entrained flow reactor (EFR) were used in this work to assess the relative combustion reactivities of different rank coals and their binary coal blends. The combustion behaviour of coal blends in TGA was greatly influenced by coal rank and the proportion of each component in the blend. Higher volatile coals exerted more influenc...

The interaction behaviours between components of polyacrylate (PAc)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and lithium perchlorate (LiClO(4)) were investigated in detail by Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR)-Fourier Transformed Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Solution cast films of the PAc/PEO and PAc/PEO/LiClO(4) were examined. No obvious shifting of the characteristic ether and ester group stretching modes...

The miscibility of the dicyanate of bisphenol A, with three dicyanate monomers, with aryl/alkylene ether backbones is studied at different compositions of a binary blend. Solubility parameters are calculated for dicyanate monomers and selected oligmers using the methods of Small and Fedors to predict compatibility. The results are evaluated in terms of the accuracy of the model in reproducing o...