| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5189960 | Polymer | 2007 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Ternary blends composed of a liquid crystalline polymer (LCP), nano-SiO2 and polysulfone (PSF) were prepared by melt blending. Very long and perfectly oriented LCP fibrils were in situ formed in capillary flows by adding 5Â vol% of nano-SiO2 to binary PSF/LCP blend. Dynamic rheology analysis indicated that the sharp increase of elasticity was caused by higher content of nano-SiO2. Then the entrance angle was decreased and elongational stress increased when the polymer melt flowed through the abrupt contraction, which resulted in the fibrillation of LCP in PSF/LCP/nano-SiO2 system.
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Authors
Jun Chen, Peng Chen, Lichuan Wu, Jun Zhang, Jiasong He,