Characterization and CO2 sorption behaviour of polystyrene/polycarbonate blend system

Abstract The CO 2 sorption isotherms of samples of polystyrene/polycarbonate blends with different compositions which were prepared by casting from 1,4-dioxane solutions were obtained as a function of composition of the polymer blend at 25°C using a Cahn-sorption apparatus. The characterization of the polymer blend system was obtained from the point of thermal behaviour such as differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, and 13 C CP/MAS n.m.r. From the characterization of the polymer blend, it was confirmed that there was a small amount of crystallinity of polycarbonate. Basically the polymer blend system studied here is heterogeneous (i.e. phase-separated) but it was found that a small amount of polystyrene is partly miscible with polycarbonate and this probably disrupts the crystallization of polycarbonate especially at the higher polystyrene content. CO 2 sorption isotherms of the blend system including two homopolymers appeared to obey the dual mode sorption isotherm, which is a characteristic of the glassy state. The change of the CO 2 sorption amount for the polymer blend was mainly explained by the amount of the crystallite of polycarbonate, indicating that the effect of the partly miscible region on the CO 2 sorption behaviour is very small.

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