Anomalous component dynamics polymer blends

Anomalous component dynamics in blends and mixtures have been observed which cannot be explained by the models of Fischer et al., Kumar et al., and Lodge and McLeish [329]. A recent example is the anomalous dynamics of d4PEO found in the d4PEO/PMMA polymer blends [336], While this anomaly cannot be understood by the other models, it has an immediate explanation from the CM [337],... 

The component dynamics in polymer-diluent mixtures discussed in the previous section are similar to those of polymer blends, such as the appearance of two different TgS (Fig. 2.15). Thus, a theory of component dynamics of polymer blends is robust only if it is also applicable to polymer-diluent mixtures and can explain the anomalous component dynamics found therein [98-101]. If it can be extended... 

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