| Abstract: | Miscibility of polycarbonate (PC)/poly (arylate) (PAr) was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), phase contrast microscopy with digital image analysis (DIA) system, FT-IR spectroscopy, and cloud points for the PC/PAr/methylene chloride ternary systems. PC and PAr were immiscible over the whole composition range from the thermodynamical viewpoint. However, PC/PAr is homogenized by transesterification between PC and PAr at high temperatures. There is observed a competition between phase separation due to thermodynamical factor and phase dissolution due to transesterification. The pattern of the phase separation was spinodal decomposition type and the structure was successfully analysed by DIA. |
