29.06.2013 Views

a) b - École Polytechnique de Montréal

a) b - École Polytechnique de Montréal

a) b - École Polytechnique de Montréal

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

6.2 Introduction<br />

It is well-known that the morphology of a polymer blend has a significant influence on its<br />

properties(Paul & Newman, 1978; Utracki, 1998). For binary immiscible polymer blends, two<br />

broad categories of morphology exist: the matrix/dispersed phase structure and the co-continuous<br />

morphology (Figure 6-1a)(Favis, 2000; Potschke & Paul, 2003).<br />

a)<br />

b) c)<br />

Figure 6-1. (a) schematic representation of the evolution of morphology in a binary blend, (b)<br />

matrix/dispersed morphology, and (c) co-continuous morphology<br />

173

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!