Abstract
Time-resolved synchrotron wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering experiments were used to investigate the crystallization behavior and microstructure development of poly(ethylene oxide) and several melt-miscible PEO blends. Model blends were prepared with both weakly interacting poly(methyl methacrylate) and two strongly interacting random copolymers. Average SAXS long periods and lamellar thicknesses decreased at early crystallization times: by 2−3 nm for PEO and blends containing the low Tg diluent and by ∼5−9 nm for blends containing higher Tg diluents. The latter appears to arise in part from additional restrictions placed on the growing lamellae by the stiff, high Tg amorphous polymeric diluents. The increase in final long period over that of neat PEO was ∼2−4 nm for the weakly interacting blends, as opposed to as large as 10 nm for the strongly interacting mixtures. In the former case, the changes are associated with interlamellar diluent placement, while in the latter they result primarily from an...
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