Dependence of the Average Size of Particles Formed during Steady Mixing on their Concentration in Immiscible Polymer Blends |
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| Authors: | Ivan Fortelný Bojan Dimzoski Danuše Michálková Jana Mikešová Ludmila Kaprálková |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Prague , Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | A linear increase in the size of ethylene-propylene rubber particles with its content in polypropylene matrix at steady mixing in a batch mixer was observed. This type of the dependence is predicted by the theory of dynamic equilibrium between the droplet breakup and coalescence. However, theoretical calculation of droplet radius extrapolated to zero concentration of EPR and slope of the dependence of droplet radius versus concentration, based on the effective shear rate  | |
| Keywords: | blends coalescence droplet breakup mixing morphology |
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