The mechanism of thermal degradation in blend of polymethyl methacrylate (PMIMA), styrene Copolymers such as (α-styrene-co-acrylonitrile) Copolymer(SAN), (acrylonitrile-butadiene-acrylonitri1e)terpolymer(ABS) were analyzed using the thermal analysis,...
The mechanism of thermal degradation in blend of polymethyl methacrylate (PMIMA), styrene Copolymers such as (α-styrene-co-acrylonitrile) Copolymer(SAN), (acrylonitrile-butadiene-acrylonitri1e)terpolymer(ABS) were analyzed using the thermal analysis, gel permeation chromatography, pyrolysis gas chromatography and infra-red apectroscopy in the stream of nitrogen.
· It has been shown that the depolymerization of blends were a radical chain reaction and that degradation in the region of 300-400 C is associated with initiation by scission of the polymer at random along its length to from radicals.
· The dominant process in the degradation of PMMA-PS blend was main chain scission randomly due to weak link except PMMA-SAW and PMMA-ABS blend below 300 ℃ under nitrogen environment.
· The aimplest depolymerization reaction is that of PMMA from which monomer is obtained 90% over is PS, SAN and ABS blends.