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6.3 Experimental<br />

6.3.1 Materials<br />

Commercial homopolymers of HDPE, PMMA, and PS were used in this study to prepare ternary<br />

samples. Low molecular weight poly(methyl methacrylate) and , high molecular weight<br />

poly(methyl methacrylate) obtained from Sigma-Aldrich and the high-<strong>de</strong>nsity polyethylene,<br />

HDPE 3000 from Petromont. The L-PMMA was the base resin used in all parts of this work<br />

while the H-PMMA was only used in the part discussing the effects of viscosity. Polystyrene, PS<br />

615APR was purchased from Dow Chemical. Some of the characteristics of the homopolymers<br />

are reported in Table 6-1.<br />

The interfacial tension values and the Harkins spreading coefficients are tabulated in Table 6-2.<br />

Table 6-1. Material Characteristics<br />

Material<br />

High Density<br />

Polyethylene<br />

Commercial<br />

co<strong>de</strong><br />

Mw * 10 -3<br />

(g/mol)<br />

Melt In<strong>de</strong>x<br />

(g/10min)<br />

η0 *10 -3<br />

at 190°C<br />

(Pa.s)<br />

η *×10 -3 at 25<br />

rad s -1 (Pa.s)<br />

Density<br />

(g/cm 3 )<br />

at 20 °C<br />

177<br />

Density<br />

(g/cm 3 ) at<br />

200 °C<br />

3000 - 8.1 1.6 0.72 0.98 0.85<br />

Polystyrene 615APR 290 - 5.9 1.5 1.04 0.97<br />

L-Poly(methyl<br />

methacrylate)<br />

H-Poly(methyl<br />

methacrylate)<br />

- 12 - -- 0.04 1.19 1<br />

182265 996 - --<br />

7.8 1.2 1.1

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