Macromolecular Division
Definitions of Terms Related to Polymer Blends,
Composites and Multiphase Polymeric Materials
The document defines the terms most commonly encountered in the field
of polymer blends and composites. The scope has been limited to mixtures
in which the components differ in chemical composition or molar mass
and in which the continuous phase is polymeric. Incidental thermodynamic
descriptions are mainly limited to binary mixtures although, in principle,
they could be generalized to multi-component mixtures.
The document is organized into three sections. The first defines terms
basic to the description of polymer mixtures. The second defines terms
commonly encountered in descriptions of phase domain behaviour of polymer
mixtures. The third defines terms commonly encountered in the descriptions
of the morphologies of phase-separated polymer mixtures.
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Comments by 31 March 2003
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