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DSC studies of poly(vinyl chloride)/poly(ε-caprolactone)/poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane) blends

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Poly(vinyl chloride)/poly(ε-caprolactone)/poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane) [PVC/PCL/(PCL-b-PDMS)] blends were prepared by solvent casting from tetrahydrofuran. The content of PVC was kept constant (60 wt%); the PCL and PCL-b-PDMS contents were varied by replacing different amounts of PCL [0–20 wt% from the PVC/PCL (60/40) blend] with PCL-b-PDMS copolymer having different molecular weights of the PCL blocks. The thermal properties of prepared blends were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry in order to analyse miscibility (through glass transition temperature) and crystallinity. Differential scanning calorimetry analyses show that the PVC/PCL/PCL-b-PDMS blends are multi-phase materials which contain a PVC plasticized with PCL phase, a block copolymer PCL-b-PDMS phase (with crystalline and amorphous PCL and PDMS domains) and a PCL phase (preponderantly crystalline).

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  1. Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, 71 A, Boulevard D. Mangeron, 700050, Iasi, Romania

    Claudia Gordin & Mihai Rusu

  2. Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, Bioorganique et Macromoléculaire, 3, rue Alfred Werner, 68093, Mulhouse cedex, France

    Christelle Delaite & Sophie Bistac

  3. Polymers and Composites Technology and Mechanical Engineering Department, Ecole des Mines de Douai, 941 Rue Charles Bourseul, 59508, Douai, France

    Daniela Rusu

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Gordin, C., Delaite, C., Bistac, S. et al. DSC studies of poly(vinyl chloride)/poly(ε-caprolactone)/poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane) blends. Polym. Bull. 63, 517–529 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-009-0101-8

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