Interfacial tension of PBT/SAN blends by the drop retraction method
AUTOR(ES)
Ito, Edson Noriyuki, Ueki, Marcelo Massayoshi, Bretas, Rosario Elida Suman, Hage Junior, Elias
FONTE
Materials Research
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008-06
RESUMO
The aim of this work was to evaluate the interfacial tension from the poly(butylene terephtalate) and poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (PBT/SAN) interface region using the drop retraction method. SAN filaments were sandwiched between two PBT films; the whole system was heated up to 240 °C, in a hot stage coupled to an optical microscope. The rheological parameters of the PBT/SAN system were obtained by parallel plates rheometry. An increase of the interfacial tension with the PBT molecular weight was observed with values between 0.57 and 1.06 mN/m, depending on the molecular weight. Theoretical values were calculated using the geometric-mean and harmonic-mean equations and were found to be similar to the experimental results. Viscosity measurements showed that the higher the SAN/PBT viscosity ratio, the lower the interfacial tension of these blends.
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