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• TITLE: Mechanical and Morphological Properties of Polypropylene/Polyoxymethylene Blends

  AUTHORS: Sirirat Wacharawichanant, Tanakorn Siripattanasak

  KEYWORDS: Polypropylene; Polyoxymethylene; Morphology; Mechanical Properties

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science, Vol.3 No.3, July 11, 2013

  ABSTRACT: This work studies the mechanical and morphological properties of polypropylene (PP)/polyoxymethylene (POM) blends. The PP/POM blends were prepared by melting-blend with an internal mixer. The contents of PP were used at 10%, 20%, 30%, 70%, 80% and 90% by weight. The phase morphology of the blends was observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) due to the mechanical properties depended on the phase morphology. The results show the decrease of the impact strength, Young’s modulus and tensile strength of POM/PP blends with increasing of PP content up to 30 wt% and then increase again with a high PP content. The percent strain at break of the blends increases after adding PP in a range of 70 - 90 wt%. SEM study reveals that the POM/PP blends clearly demonstrate a two-phase matrix-particle microstructure. The results also show that the domain size of dispersed PP or POM phase increases with increasing PP or POM content. The POM domain size is smaller than the PP domain size which leads to a little change of mechanical results of PP.