用于聚合物共混体系的共聚物增容剂

在不相容多相聚合物体系中，共聚物增容剂的存在将对共混物的形态结构及力学性能产生极大的影响，它们的作用是增强相间粘合力，减小相表面张力。本文系统论述了共聚物增容剂的分子设计及其分子特性对增容效果的影响，并分别讨论了反应型及非反应型共聚物增容剂的近期发展。     

共聚物在聚合物共混体系中的增容作用Ⅱ.接枝共聚物和无规共聚物

在不相容的聚合物共混体系中加入共聚物作为增容剂可以有效地改善两相间的界面状况，得到力学性能优良的合金材料。本文主要讨论接枝共聚物和无规共聚物在聚合物共混体系中的增容作用和增容机理。     

几种典型固体聚合物体系的~（13）C自旋－晶格弛豫特性

用固体高分辨ＮＭＲ系统地研究了几种典型的均聚物，共聚物，聚合物共混物以及用接枝共聚物增容的不相容聚合物共混体系的１３Ｃ自旋－晶格弛豫特性。研究结果表明：１３Ｃ自旋－晶格弛豫时间（Ｔ１（Ｃ））是表征固体聚合物体系的很有用参数，它能提供有关本体聚合物微观形态结构的信息，并可望建立聚合物的微观结构与宏观性能的关系，它不仅能准确无误地反映共混体系中可能存在的各种相互作用，而且能定性地给出相互作用的大小和准确地指明相互作用产生的位置，因而为揭示共混体系的相容机理提供了最直接的证据，另外Ｔ１（Ｃ）还能给出增容剂对不相容共混体系的增容作用和增容机制的直接实验证据     

环氧化天然橡胶二次改性的研究进展

环氧化天然橡胶(ENR)分子链中存在易开环的反应性环氧基团,环氧基团的开环反应为ENR进行进一步的改性提供了极大的方便。ENR选择性氢化双键可以提高其抗热氧稳定性;ENR与胺类化合物和含磷化合物的反应,可以将防老剂和阻燃剂负载到ENR分子链上,从而达到在分子尺寸的分散;可以利用环氧基团的选择性氧化裂解制备NR基嵌段共聚物的前驱体遥爪型NR;通过环氧基团可以进行接枝改性其它聚合物;此外,分子链中的环氧基团使ENR与无机填料和其它极性聚合物共混相容性提高。     

几种反应型相容剂及其在聚合物共混改性中的应用

反应型增容已经成为提高聚合物相容的一个重要手段。甲基丙烯酸缩水甘油配(GMA)、马来酸酐(MAH)和丙烯酸(AA)作为主要的接枝单体己得到广泛应用。本文从GMA、MAH和AA官能化聚合物的作用机理，以及他们作为反应型相容剂，通过“原位”反应增容聚合物共混体系，提高聚合物合金的相容性两个方面，介绍了国内外在反应型增容这一领域内所取得的进展。     

酸酐化聚砜对聚砜/液晶聚合物共混物的界面增容作用

首先合成了马来酸酐接枝改性聚砜.改性后聚砜材料的表面张力增大,其中的极性分量增加明显,并以此增容聚砜/液晶聚合物(VectraB950)为原位复合体系,研究了增容前后共混物的加工流变行为和界面性能.结果表明,酸酐化聚砜可增强聚砜与液晶聚合物之间的界面作用,引起共混物加工粘度的上升;漫反射FTIR研究表明,增容后共混体系中的特殊相互作用增大;XPS和PLM的研究表明,在熔融加工过程中改性聚砜与液晶聚合物组分之间存在一定的界面化学反应,并生成了接枝共聚物.共混物相容性的提高应归结于相间化学反应与物理作用共同作用的结果.     

HIPS／MA接技共聚物对HIPS／PA1010共混体系的增容

制备了高抗冲聚苯乙烯和马来酸酐的接枝共聚物，利用红外光谱，电子能谱和动态力学谱对产物的结构进行了表征，并通过滴定法测定了接枝物中马来酸酐的含量。结果表明马来酸酐接技到了高抗冲聚苯乙烯中顺丁橡胶的分子链上，接技率为４．７％。研究了该接枝共聚物对ＰＡ１０１０／ＨＩＰＳ共混物的增容作用。电镜照片显示，随着共聚物中接枝物含量的增加，分散相相区尺寸明显减小，说明增容效果显著。测定了共混体系的拉伸行为，研究了     

PP/PMMA/PP-g-MAH共混物的结晶和相形态研究

采用偏光显微镜和相差显微镜详细研究PP/PMMA不相容聚合物共混物体系和PP/PMMA/PP-g-PMMA增容共混体系的结晶和相形态.偏光显微照片的研究结果表明,增容剂PP-g-MAH中PP结晶需要克服更多的能垒,导致PP结晶形态变得不完善,球晶尺寸变小.比较PP/PMMA和PP/PMMA/PP-g-MAH的相差显微照片可以看出,由于增容剂的加入,PP与PMMA相之间的界面变得模糊,两相的相容性变好.随着PP-g-MAH中MAH接枝率的增加,PMMA分散相的尺寸减小且变得均匀;当增容剂的接枝率为2.41%,添加的质量分数为4.71%,PP/PMMA共混体系中PMMA分散相的相?尺寸可达最小.PP-g-MAH作为反应型增容剂,一方面与PP在界面区域产生共晶;另一方面,MAH极性基团与PMMA的极性基团间产生的强的化学键合作用,使得界面区域的PP-g-MAH分子采取有利于降低构象熵的构象来起到增容作用.PP/PMMA共混物在130℃等温结晶的结果显示,PMMA相对PP的结晶形态的影响较小,PP结晶呈现典型的均相成核特征.PP/PMMA共混体系中加入PP-g-MAH,PP结晶尺寸减少.与非等温结晶相比,等温结晶的PP/PMMA共混物中PMMA相区尺寸明显偏大.     

“活”的α-甲基苯乙烯共聚物:聚合反应新化学和材料工程新技术

高于临界聚合反应温度时,α-甲基苯乙烯(AMS)单体和其聚合物处于聚合-解聚平衡.基于AMS聚合物在受热时可裂解生成大分子链自由基的特性,提出了含AMS结构单元的共聚物是一种"活"的,可作为大分子自由基引发剂的概念,并通过实验对AMS共聚物的引发性能和应用进行了研究.首先,合成了AMS与(甲基)丙烯酸酯类单体、丙烯酸、苯乙烯和马来酸酐等的共聚物.然后以上述共聚物为大分子引发剂,在90℃引发(甲基)丙烯酸酯类单体和苯乙烯等的本体聚合、溶液聚合和乳液聚合,得到了嵌段共聚物.用ESR谱证明了AMS的共聚物在加热时能裂解生成以碳原子为中心的大分子链自由基.此外,在聚合物的熔融共混中,AMS分解产生的大分子链自由基通过偶合反应形成接枝链,原位生成相容剂.AMS共聚物还可以对碳纳米管及无机粒子进行表面原位接枝改性.AMS共聚物是一类无小分子残留的绿色自由基引发剂,可以用于低成本制备两嵌段共聚物,也可以用于聚合物的熔融共混增容.     

几种典型固体聚合物体系的^13C自旋—晶格弛豫特性

用固体高分辨ＮＭＲ系统地研究了几种典型的均聚物，共聚物，聚合物共混物以及用接枝共聚物增容的不相容聚合物共混体系的＾１３Ｃ自旋－晶格弛豫特性。研究结果表明：＾１３Ｃ自旋－晶格弛豫时间是表征固体聚合物体系的很有用参数，它能提供有关本体聚合物微观形态结构的信息，并要望建立聚合物的微观怀宏观性能的关系，它不仅能准确无误地反映共混体系中可能存在的各种相互作用，而且能定性地给出相互作用的大小和准确地指明相互     

Effect of Endfunctionality of Reactive Polymers on the Reaction Kinetics at Immiscible Polymer Interfaces: A Monte Carlo Study

Reactions at the interface of two immiscible polymers containing different reactive groups at either one end or both ends are studied with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The MC simulation shows that the copolymer concentration at the interface is shown to dramatically increase during the early stage of reaction and then levels off at a constant value. The effect of endfunctionality, i. e., the effect of the number of endfunctional groups, is also investigated. While the saturation value of interfacial coverage is proportional to the initial reactive polymer density for the case of mono‐endfunctional polymer, the simulation results with di‐endfunctional polymers show that the saturation copolymer coverage is not exactly proportional to the initial reactive polymer density in the case of high concentrations of the initial reactive polymer. This is believed to be caused by the change of conformation of block copolymers formed at the interface due to reaction: the fraction of loop conformation decreases while the tail fraction increases with a large amount of initial reactive di‐endfunctional polymer. Also, the experimentally determined time‐dependent interfacial fracture toughness, which is, in turn, related to the copolymer coverage at the interface, is in good qualitative agreement with the simulation results.     

相形态对聚合物反应共混过程的影响

通过采用典型的热力学不相容共混体系聚烯烃弹性体/聚苯乙烯(POE/PS),利用流变学和形态研究的方法,考察了不同相形态(海岛结构和双连续结构)对聚合物反应共混过程的影响.研究发现相形态对聚合物原位增容共混反应有显著的影响,界面反应的进程与界面形态的变化能力直接相关.对于双连续结构的共混物,其形态稳定性最差,因而最有利于界面反应的发生;而在海岛结构的共混体系中,界面反应的进程则取决于界面变形的难易程度,黏度比小的体系更容易发生界面反应。     

Reactively and physically compatibilized immiscible polymer blends: stability of the copolymer at the interface

This paper reports on the interfacial behaviour of block and graft copolymers used as compatibilizers in immiscible polymer blends. A limited residence time of the copolymer at the interface has been shown in both reactive blending and blend compatibilization by preformed copolymers. Polystyrene (PS)/polyamide6 (PA6), polyphenylene oxide (PPO)/PA6 and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)/PA6 blends have been reactively compatibilized by a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer SMA. The extent of miscibility of SMA with PS, PPO and PMMA is a key criterion for the stability of the graft copolymer at the interface. For the first 10 to 15 minutes of mixing, the in situ formed copolymer is able to decrease the particle size of the dispersed phase and to prevent it from coalescencing. However, upon increasing mixing time, the copolymer leaves the interface which results in phase coalescence. In PS/LDPE blends compatibilized by preformed PS/hydrogenated polybutadiene (hPB) block copolymers, a tapered diblock stabilizes efficiently a co-continuous two-phase morphology, in contrast to a triblock copolymer that was unable to prevent phase coarsening during annealing at 180°C for 150 minutes.     

Reactive compatibilization of SAN/EPR blends: effect of the kinetics of the compatibilization reaction on the interfacial adhesion

The very poor adhesion between films of styrene and acrylonitrile random copolymer (SAN) and maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (PP‐g‐MA) can be dramatically improved by an intermediate thin layer of SAN bearing groups reactive toward maleic anhydride. The rate of the interfacial reaction, which is controlled by the reactive groups attached to SAN (amine vs. carbamate) and by the method used to build up the sandwich assembly, has a decisive effect on the capability of the SAN‐g‐PP graft copolymer formed at the interface to improve the fracture toughness in direct dependence on its molecular architecture.     

The Effect of Chain Architecture of In Situ Formed Copolymers on Interfacial Morphology of Reactive Polymer Blends

Summary: The effect of chain architecture of in situ formed copolymers on the interfacial morphology of reactive polymer blends was investigated. We found that the chain architectures of copolymers at the interface significantly affected the reaction and interface roughness. Although the amount of in situ formed Y‐shaped graft copolymers was smaller than that for diblock copolymers, the interface area generated by the former was larger than that generated by the latter.

Cross‐sectional TEM images for the mid‐sample reacted at 180 °C for different reaction times.     

Dynamic modeling of the morphology of latex particles with in situ formation of graft copolymer

Modification of the polymer–polymer interfacial tension is a way to tailor‐make particle morphology of waterborne polymer–polymer hybrids. This allows achieving a broader spectrum of application properties and maximizing the synergy of the positive properties of both polymers, avoiding their drawbacks. In situ formation of graft copolymer during polymerization is an efficient way to modify the polymer–polymer interfacial tension. Currently, no dynamic model is available for polymer–polymer hybrids in which a graft copolymer is generated during polymerization. In this article, a novel model based on stochastic dynamics is developed for predicting the dynamics of the development of particle morphology for composite waterborne systems in which a graft copolymer is produced in situ during the process. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Functional copolymer/organo‐MMT nanoarchitectures. XIX. Nanofabrication and characterization of poly(MA‐alt‐1‐octadecene)‐g‐PLA layered silicate nanocomposites with nanoporous core–shell morphology

Novel bioengineering functional copolymer‐g‐biopolymer‐based layered silicate nanocomposites were fabricated by catalytic interlamellar bulk graft copolymerization of L‐lactic acid (LA) monomer onto alternating copolymer of maleic anhydride (MA) with 1‐octadecene as a reactive matrix polymer in the presence of preintercalated LA…organo‐MMT clay (reactive ODA‐MMT and non‐reactive DMDA‐MMT) complexes as nanofillers and tin(oct)₂ as a catalyst under vacuum at 80°C. To characterize the functional copolymer layered silicate nanocomposites and understand the mechanism of in situ processing, interfacial interactions and nanostructure formation in these nanosystems, we have utilized a combination of variuous methods such as FT‐IR spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction (XRD), dynamic mechanical (DMA), thermal (DSC and TGA‐DTG), SEM and TEM morphology. It was found that in situ graft copolymerization occurred through the following steps: (i) esterification of anhydride units of copolymer with LA; (ii) intercalation of LA between silicate galleries; (iii) intercalation of matrix copolymer into silicate layers through in situ amidization of anhydride units with octadecyl amine intercalant; and (iv) interlamellar graft copolymerization via in situ intercalating/exfoliating processing. The main properties and observed micro‐ and nanoporous surface and internal core–shell morphology of the nanocomposites significantly depend on the origin of MMT clays and type of in situ processing (ion exchanging, amidization reaction, strong H‐bonding and self‐organized hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfacial interactions). This developed approach can be applied to a wide range of anhydride‐containing copolymers such as random, alternating and graft copolymers of MA to synthesize new generation of polymer‐g‐biopolymer silicate layered nanocomposites and nanofibers for nanoengineering and nanomedicine applications. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Simulation of heterogeneous end-coupling reactions in polydisperse polymer blends

The influence of polydispersity on the interfacial kinetics of end-coupling and microstructure formation in the melt of immiscible polymers was studied using dissipative particle dynamics simulations. The irreversible reaction started at a flat interface between two layers, each of which contained polymer chains of two different lengths with functionalized or unreactive end groups. As in the case of fully functionalized monodisperse reactants [A. V. Berezkin and Y. V. Kudryavtsev, Macromolecules 44, 112 (2011)], four kinetic regimes were observed: linear (mean field coupling at the initial interface), saturation (decreasing the reaction rate due to the copolymer brush formation or reactant depletion near the interface), autocatalytic (loss of the initial interface stability and formation of a lamellar microstructure), and terminal (microstructure ripening under diffusion control). The interfacial instability is caused by overcrowding the interface with the reaction product, and it can be kinetically suppressed by increasing chain length of the reactants. Main effects of polydispersity are as follows: (i) the overall end-coupling rate is dominated by the shortest reactive chains; (ii) the copolymer concentration at the interface causing its instability can be not the same as in the lamellas formed afterwards; (iii) mean length of the copolymer product considerably changes with conversion passing through a minimum when a microstructure is just formed.     

Interfacial reciprocal grafting by free radical reactions in polymer blends

Recent developments in the field of reactive compatibilization of polymer blends prepared by melt processing focus on the addition of low molecular weight compounds. This work deals with in situ compatibilization through the formation of graft or crosslinked copolymers at the interface. Mixtures of semicrystalline hydrocarbon polymers have been subjected to free radical reactivity, in a co-rotating twin screw extruder (ZSK 30) in a single step. The particular system, high density polyethylene and polyamide 6, was blended in the presence of a peroxide and a reactive bifunctional monomer, maleic anhydride. Because of a combined effect, the reaction appears to occur mainly at the interface, where the resulting grafted copolymer acts as an anchor for the final stabilization of the biphasic system. Different analytical techniques, such as differential scanning calorimetry, scanning electron microscopy and tensile testing, helped in characterizing the resulting blends and confirmed the high level of interfacial grafting and the expected improvement in mechanical properties.     

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF REACTIVE GRAFT COPOLYMER PDMS-g-(PEO-OH)

A new reactive graft copolymer, poly (dimethyl siloxane )-graft-ω-hydroxyl-poly(ethylene oxide) (PDMS-g-(PEO--OH)), was synthesized by the hydrosilylation reactionof α, ω-bifunctional PEO macromonomer (CH_2=CH--CH_2--PEO--OH) with poly(hydromethylsiloxane) (PHMS). The obtained copolymer, exhibited the expected comb-like structure as indicated by the result of detailed characterization and the neededreactivity as demonstrated by the result of esterification between PDMS-g-(PEO--OH)and aminoacetic acid. This reactive graft copolymer is expected to be very useful in thepreparation of new bioactive polymer materials.