PVPh-based blends

Figure 20.2 Variation of P2/A with composition for various PVPh-based blends. , PEO X=1.5 O, PEOX = 3.0 , PVMEX=1.5 , PVME >l = 3.0 A, PET O, PMMA. Reprinted with permission from Ref [42] 2003, Elsevier.

Many of the applications in which CEs are involved require clarity or uniform properties on a microscopic structural level, so miscibility or molecular-scale mixing is important when CE-based blends are formed. There are some examples of miscible or homogeneous CE blends with vinyl polymers. One interesting class of these is a mixture of CE and poly(vinyl phenol) (PVPh) [101,102], This phenolic polymer is known to form a miscible blend with a wide variety of polymers with potential hydrogen-bond-accepting groups [101], the latter set including commercially available CEs, i.e., cel-... 

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