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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
NATL INST MATERIALS SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/14/3/035006
Keywords
blend polymer film; straining; small-angle x-ray scattering; microstructure; mechanical properties; hard-elastic
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- Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (HASYLAB) [I-2011-0087]
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Straining of PVA/PE and PVA/PP blends (70 : 30) is monitored by small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). Sheet-extruded films with different predraw ratio are investigated. The discrete SAXS of predrawn samples originates from polyolefin nanofibrils inside of polyolefin microfibrils immersed in a PVA matrix. PE nanofibrils deform less than the macroscopic strain without volume change. PP nanofibrils experience macroscopic strain. They lengthen but their diameter does not decrease. This is explained by strain-induced crystallization of PP from an amorphous depletion shell around the core of the nanofibril. The undrawn PVA/PE film exhibits isotropic semicrystalline nanostructure. Undrawn PVA/PP holds PP droplets containing oriented stacks of semicrystalline PP like neat precursors of hard-elastic thermoplasts. Respective predrawn films are softer than the undrawn material, indicating conversion into the hard-elastic state. Embedding of the polyolefin significantly retards neck formation. The polyolefin microfibrils can easily be extracted from the water-soluble matrix.
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