Compatibilizing effect of post-consumer high density polyethylene in blends with polyamide-6 / Efeito compatibilizante do polietileno de alta densidade pos-consumo em blendas com poliamida-6

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2007

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Polymer blends are commonly immiscible, due to the small entropy of mixture, and incompatible, caused by the absence of intermolecular interactions between the phases, resulting in poor mechanical properties. The addition of block or graft copolymers is an alternative way to improve the adhesion at the interface and to reduce the interfacial tension. In this work, high density polyethylene or post-consumer high density polyethylene (PEpc) were blended with polyamide-6 (PA6) to verify the supposed compatibilizing effect of PEpc. Blends were prepared with 25, 50 and 75 wt % of PA6, by using a single- or a twin-screw extruder, at a temperature range from 230 to 255 °C and 102 rpm rotational speed. Test specimens were obtained by injection molding at the same conditions of the extrusion. The temperature and the period of molding were 20 °C and 20 s, respectively. The scanning electron microscopy showed a reduction in the size domains of the disperse phase when PEpc was used, in addition the tensile strength, the flexural modulus and the impact strength were improved. The thermal stability (onset degradation temperature and maximum degradation temperature) and the thermal properties (melting and crystallization temperatures and fusion enthalpy) were unaffected by PEpc. The hypothesis of the compatibilizing effect of PEpc was supported by the simulation for domain size using the Wu equation, by the formation of a colloidal suspension in the Molau test and by the increase of storage modulus in the dynamic-mechanical analysis. It could be concluded that PEpc acts as a compatibilizer in PA6 blends, decreasing the interfacial tension and improving the phase adhesion, by the interaction of the amine end groups of PA6 and the polar groups of PEpc, generated from its environmental and thermomechanical degradation

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blenda poliamida-6 blenda polyamide-6 polietileno de alta densidade pos-consumo post-consumer high density

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