Applied Chemistry, Vol.2, No.1, 88-91, May, 1998
Synthesis and Miscibility Phenomena of Polyvinyl Butyral of Varying Vinyl Alcohol Contents
Polyvinyl butyrals(PVBs) of systematically varying vinyl alcohol content have been synthesized and characterizing using wet chemistry, IR, DSC and TGA. The miscibility of polyvinyl butyral(PVB)/polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA) blends was studied by DSC, DMTA and SEM as a function of PMMA and vinyl alcohol(VA) content differences between the respective blend components. It is found that a blend of PVB containing 23 wt% VA with PMMA at a weight ratio of 80:20, repectively, was thermodynamically miscible. The miscibility parameter(MP) model used to estimate potential areas of compatibility/miscibility is based on the use of solubility parameters and the estimated region of compatibility/miscibility agrees with the experimental results.