CRB30503

POLYMER ADDITIVES AND BLENDS

PPE/SAN BLEND

By:

Muhammad Taufiq Bin Mohd Nasir (55205113686)

Wan Muhammad Aiman Bin Alias (55202113691)
Mohd Arifin Bin Sakirun (55202113702)

PPE
poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4phenylene ether)

Properties:
Tough
Flame-retarding
High heat
distortion
temperature
Chemical structure

SAN
poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile)

Chemical structure

Properties:
Chemical resistant
High stiffness
Stress cracking
resistant
Low cost

PPE/SAN BLEND
Plastic-plastic blend

Immiscible and incompatible blend

PS-b-PMMA diblock copolymer as

compatibilizer

COPOLYMER PS-B-PMMA

MORPHOLOGY OF PPE/SAN

MORPHOLOGY OF COMPATIBILIZED
PPE/SAN

TEMs of PPE/SAN blends compatibilized by PS-b-PMMA

(PPE dark, SAN - bright)

Up to 60 wt%, PPE/SAN
blends show a more
continuous phase of SAN
(phase inversion)

Poor thermo-mechanical
properties

Formation cocontinouos structures

The viscosity of PPE

is significantly
higher

FORMATION OF CO-CONTINOUOS
PHASE
Increase PPE content
beyond 60 wt%
Increase viscosity
of SAN phase
Reduce viscosity of
PPE phase

Thermal
degradation of
PPE and SAN
Thermal
stability of
compatibilizer
will degrade and
decompose

FORMATION OF CO-CONTINOUOS
PHASE
Selection of lower molecular weight PPE reduces
the viscosity
Reduction of the chain length of PPE affects the
materials performance
Tailoring of the viscosity ratio: addition of a
third, low-viscous component which shows
miscibility with PPE, but immiscibility with SAN
Polystyrene (PS) can be regarded as material of
choice, as it shows miscibility with PPE

MORPHOLOGY OF (PPE/PS)/SAN

TEM of (PPE/PS)/SAN (30/30)/40. Black indicates

PPE/PS phase, white indicates SAN phase.

CONCLUSION
PPE/SAN is an
immiscible
and
incompatible
blend

Compatibilizer:
PS-b-PMMA

Addition of PS
to improve
blend
morphology

THANK YOU For Your Attention !

REFERENCES

Ller, A., & Schmidt, H. (2010). Thermal Diffusion

in Polymer Blends: Criticallity and Pattern
Formation. In Complex Macromolecular Systems
I (p. 220). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg.