Abstract
This chapter presents the basic aspects of crystallization of polymer blends. The first section of the chapter discusses the thermodynamics of polymer blends: the general principles and the main theories on the phase behavior of polymer mixtures are presented. The second section talks about the properties of miscible blends with crystallizable components. The phase morphology, crystal growth rate, overall crystallization kinetics, and melting behavior of miscible blends are analyzed. The third section describes the properties of immiscible blends, and in particular the types of morphology, nucleation processes, and crystal growth. The crystallization behavior of some immiscible systems is reviewed. The fourth section deals with compatibilized blends. The main compatibilization methods, including addition of copolymers and reactive mixing methods, are reported. The last section is dedicated to polymer blends containing liquid‐crystalline components. It focuses on the phase behavior, the morphological and thermodynamic characteristics, and the crystallization behavior of polymer/liquid crystalline components.
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