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Figure 2-6. Depen<strong>de</strong>nce of the composite dispersed morphology on PS and PMMA molecular<br />

weights. SEM photomicrographs of (a) HDPE/L-PS/L-PMMA; PMMA is extracted by acetic<br />

acid and (b) HDPE/H-PS/H-PMMA; PS is extracted by cyclohexane. The white bar <strong>de</strong>notes<br />

1 μm(Reignier, et al., 2003).<br />

This section showed that many parameters can affect the simplest morphology of ternary<br />

polymer blends, which is composite droplet morphology. The question is: which theory can<br />

correctly predict the morphology, and which theory can give similar results to reality in the<br />

fastest time? In some work, different theories mentioned above are compared by (Valera, Morita,<br />

& Demarquette, 2006) work. In this work, the morphology of the PMMA/PP/PS ternary blend<br />

with different compositions was comprehensively studied. PMMA, PS, and PP are selected as<br />

the matrix and the composition of the minor phases was changed to find which mo<strong>de</strong>l is able to<br />

predict a wi<strong>de</strong> range of compositions. It has been reported that the predictions of the minimal<br />

surface free energy theory were verified by experimental observations only when PS was the<br />

matrix, and in the other cases the minimal surface free energy theory was unsuccessful to predict<br />

the morphology. The spreading coefficient mo<strong>de</strong>l and the dynamic interfacial tension mo<strong>de</strong>l can<br />

predict most of the experimental results.<br />

Finally, it is conclu<strong>de</strong>d that the fastest way to predict the morphology of the ternary polymer<br />

blend with a great accuracy still remains the spreading coefficients.<br />

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