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Figure 2-22: Depen<strong>de</strong>nce of PE continuity fraction on the CB content in 5/95 and 10/90<br />

Jerome et al.(Gubbels, Blacher, et al., 2002; Gubbels, Jerome, et al., 2002) conducted studies<br />

with different binary blends, such as PE/PS and PS/PMMA, to investigate the influence of<br />

parameters on the percolation threshold and extend the dual percolation concept to other binary<br />

blends.<br />

Jerome and co-workers found that due to thermodynamic forces governing the system and filler<br />

aggregation, the classical theory of percolation (Equation 2-44) can not account even<br />

qualitatively for most of the experimental data. For instance, the experimental t exponent is quite<br />

different from the theoretical values and <strong>de</strong>pends strongly on the morphology of the blend.<br />

Hence, the theory needs to be modified. It was observed that for PE/PS blend, carbon black was<br />

accumulated at the polymer interface as the result of a kinetic control leading to unstable<br />

systems, but in PS/PMMA, due to the more polar polymer component (PMMA vs. PE), the<br />

interfacial localization of CB particles was appropriately improved (Calberg, et al., 1999)(Figure<br />

2-23).<br />

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