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(spreading coefficients 2, 6, 7, and 9); and PS|PMMA|PVDF|PANI (spreading coefficients 4, 8,9,<br />

and 10. Finally, from the above, the quinary blend should have the hierarchical or<strong>de</strong>ring of<br />

HDPE|PS|PMMA|PVDF|PANI.<br />

Table 4-4. Spreading Coefficients in Different Ternary Blends and Predicted Or<strong>de</strong>r of Phases in<br />

Blends<br />

Spreading coefficients<br />

λ (mN/m)<br />

Ternary blend and or<strong>de</strong>r<br />

of phases in the blend<br />

Spreading coefficients<br />

λ (mN/m)<br />

112<br />

Ternary blend and or<strong>de</strong>r<br />

of phases in the blend<br />

1 λPS/PMMA = 2.6 mN/m HDPE|PS|PMMA 6 λPS/PANI = 7.1mN/m HDPE|PS|PANI<br />

2 λPS/PVDF = 3.8 mN/m HDPE|PS|PVDF 7 λPVDF/PANI = 7.3 mN/m HDPE|PVDF|PANI<br />

3 λPMMA/PVDF = 2.5 mN/m HDPE|PMMA|PVDF 8 λPMMA/PANI = 4.7 mN/m PS|PMMA|PANI<br />

4 λPMMA/PVDF = 1.3 mN/m PS|PMMA|PVDF 9 λPVDF/PANI = 4 mN/m PS|PVDF|PANI<br />

5 λPMMA/PANI = 9.2mN/m HDPE|PMMA|PANI 10 λPVDF/PANI = 0.6 mN/m PMMA|PVDF|PANI<br />

After a theoretical <strong>de</strong>termination of the or<strong>de</strong>r of all phases, morphology experiments for the<br />

binary, ternary, and quaternary blends comprised of the previously mentioned components<br />

confirm the theoretical or<strong>de</strong>ring. Some examples are shown in Figure 4-5. The binary blend of<br />

80/20 PMMA/PS with matrix-droplet morphology is shown in Figure 4-5a. A ternary blend of<br />

30/10/60 HDPE/PS/PMMA blends has already been shown in Figure 4-3a and confirms the<br />

situation of PS at the interface of PE and PMMA which corresponds to the positive value of<br />

λPS/PMMA(2.6 mN/m) (Case 1 from Table 4-4) as already discussed. Another ternary blend of<br />

60/20/20 HDPE/PMMA/PVDF is shown in Figure 4-5b. In that case the PMMA has been<br />

selectively extracted showing clearly a core/shell structure where PMMA is the shell and PVDF<br />

is the core. This HDPE/PMMA/PVDF ternary blend corresponds to λPMMA/PVDF(2.5 mN/m) (Case<br />

3 from Table 4-4) which predicts an encapsulation of PMMA about PVDF. The morphology<br />

observed for a quaternary blend of 50/20/10/20 HDPE/PS/PMMA/PVDF, shown in Figure 4-5c,<br />

is also consistent with the theoretical or<strong>de</strong>ring discussed above. Figure 4-5c shows the onion-like

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