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http://dx.doi.org/10.7317/pk.2013.37.6.744

Miscibility of Melt-mixed PLLA/PMMA Blends for Optical Film Application  

Park, Eun Ju (School of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Kim, In Seok (Department of Polymer Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Park, Sang Seok (School of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Lee, Ho Sang (R&D Center, LG MMA)
Lee, Moo Sung (School of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
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Polymer(Korea) / v.37, no.6, 2013 , pp. 744-752 More about this Journal
Abstract
The miscibility between poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) was investigated using thermal analyses for the purpose of developing birefringence-free material at oriented state. The effect of methyl acrylate (MA) units as comonomer of PMMA on the miscibility was also studied. All the blends prepared in this study show composition-dependent single $T_g$'s between those of blend components and high transparency over the visible region, indicating the miscibility at molecular level and no discernible effect of MA units on it. No phase separation was observed at elevated temperature of $280^{\circ}C$, higher than the degradation of PLLA and PMMA. The interaction energy density in PLLA/PMMA blends with 17 mol% of MA was measured to be $-0.74J/cm^3$ from the equilibrium melting temperature depression based on the Hoffman-Weeks method. The blends show zero-${\Delta}$n behavior at a specific mixing ratio and the drawing ratio of 3 due to compensation of intrinsic orientation birefringence. Birefringence dispersion of PLLA/PMMA5 blends was also measured to examine the possibility for quarter-wave plates or polarizer protective films.
Keywords
miscibility; poly(methyl methacrylate); polylactide; birefringence; compensation method;
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