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- DEDICATION
- CERTIFICATE
- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Need for blending
- 1.2 How to blend?
- 1.3 Types of polymer blends
- 1.4 Thermoplastic elastomers: state of the art
- 1.5 Thermodynamics of miscibility
- 1.6 Compatibilisation of TPEs
- 1.7 Dynamic vulcanisation
- Fig.1.19. Schematic representation of phase inversion of phasemorphology of TPE up on dynamic crosslinking
- 1.8 Phase morphology development
- 1.9 Blends based on linear low density polyethylene and blends based on ethyiene vinyl acetate copolymer
- 1.10 Scope and objectives of the work
- 1.11 References
- 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
- 2.1 Materials
- 2.2. Characterisation of compatibiliser
- 2.3. Blend preparation
- 2.4. Measurements
- 2.5 References
- 3. PHASE MORPHOLOGY
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Results and discussion
- Fig.3.13 Scanning electron micrographs of DCP vulcanised E30 blends