A concept of reactive compatibilizer‐tracer for studying reactive polymer blending processes |
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Authors: | Wei‐Yun Ji Lian‐Fang Feng Cai‐Liang Zhang Sandrine Hoppe Guo‐Hua Hu Dominique Dumas |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;2. Laboratory of Reactions and Process Engineering (LRGP), Université de Lorraine ‐ CNRS, ENSIC, Nancy, France;3. Plateforme d'Imagerie de Biophysique Cellulaire PTIBC‐IBISA‐Nancy, Bio‐ingénierie Moléculaire Cellulaire et Thérapeutique BMCT, CNRS;4. Ingénierie Moléculaire et Physiopathologie Articulaire, CNRS‐UL;5. Biop?le de l'Université de Lorraine, Campus Biologie‐Santé, Faculté de Médecine, 9 Av. de la Forêt de Haye, CS50184, France |
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Abstract: | A concept called reactive compatibilizer‐tracer is proposed. The latter bears reactive groups capable of reacting with its counterpart on forming a copolymer for in situ compatibilization, and fluorescent labels allowing determining very small amounts of the in situ formed compatibilizer and formation of micelles when it occurs. Owing to this concept, it is shown that a reactive compatibilizer may be very efficient at the beginning of a reactive blending process and may suddenly become completely inefficient, resulting in an abrupt and drastic increase in size of the dispersed phase domains. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 62: 359–366, 2016 |
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Keywords: | reactive blending reactive compatibilizer‐tracer graft copolymer polystyrene polyamide 6 |
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