Nanostructured Copolymers and Blends

The blends discussed so far have had dimensions of phase separation ranging from several hundred nanometers to several micrometers, which are the characteristic features of classical polymer blends. Since the advent of nanotechnology. 

Block copolymers not only possess nanostmctures in their blends with one of the corresponding homopolymers, but also induce nanostructures in the blends of other types of polymer, such as thermosetting resins [76-80]. Some examples reported recently by various research groups are described in the following examples. 

Studies on epoxy resin-based nanostmctured blends were focused mainly on the use of highly epoxidized block copolymers. Clearly, the extent of epoxidation can have a dramatic influence on the morphology of such blends this phenomenon can be illustrated on the basis of TEM images collected from blends comprising the same 

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