The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Tensile properties and interfacial interactions of bimodal hard/soft latex blends

På svenska

Author

  • Daniela Vidovska
  • Frans Maurer

Summary, in English

In this work, the effect of composition, particle size and particle size ratio on the tensile properties of well-characterized hard/soft latex blends was investigated. Four blends of hard/soft latices, with varying particle sizes (either small or large), and volume fractions of 100/0, 80/20, 60/40, 50/50, 40/60, 20/80 and 0/100 were studied. The stress at break increased and the strain at break decreased as the amount of hard particles in the blend increased. A simple model, introduced by Pukanszky for filled polymers and polymer blends, proved to be a very useful tool for evaluating the tensile properties of the latex blends. Parameter B of the model could be related to the specific surface of the dispersed hard particles and the particle size ratio. Increasing the specific surface of the dispersed hard particles resulted in an increase in parameter B. The influence of particle size ratio on parameter B was shown to depend on the formation of aggregates.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

819-830

Publication/Series

Composite Interfaces

Volume

13

Issue

8-9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

VSP BV

Topic

  • Chemical Sciences

Keywords

  • tensile properties
  • mechanical properties
  • latex blends
  • interfacial
  • interaction

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1568-5543