Blends of cellulose (CELL) with polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), poly(4-vinyl pyridine) (P$ sb4$VPy), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), poly($ epsilon$-caprolactone) (PCL), and nylon 6 (Ny6), and of chitosan with PVA were investigated in an attempt to gain some insight into the factors that affect the miscibility of cellulose with synthetic polymers. The miscibility and the scale of mixing of the various blends were studied by differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mechanical analysis, infrared and NMR spectroscopy, and proton spin-lattice relaxation measurements. The CELL/PVP, CELL/P$ sb4$VPy, and chitosan/PVA blends were shown to be homogeneous at the molecular level, while the CELL/PAN blends were shown to mix on a larger scale. In contrast the CELL/PCL and CELL/Ny6 blends were essentially immiscible; from this it was concluded that the potential for strong inter-molecular interactions is not a sufficient condition for miscibility to occur in cellulose/synthetic-polymer blends.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.74661 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Masson, Jean-François |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001235105, proquestno: AAINN67781, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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