Types of compliant composite particles

Similar blending exercises, such as the use of styrene acrylonitrile compound (SAN) in PS resulting in acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), as well as other industrial variations, led to relatively similar success. These have been described in a historical perspective by Bucknall (1977). 

we consider first the basic principles of toughening of brittle glassy polymers that clarify the role of the different particle morphologies, and of their flexibility and size, as well as volume fraction, that act together in maximizing craze plasticity at levels of flow stress that avoid craze-matter breakdown. 

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