Abstract
The thermal behavior in dynamic conditions of polypropylene/polyamide 6 (PP/PA6) blends with a modified interphase is discussed in terms of the crystallinities of the polypropylene and polyamide components imposed by the processing step conditions and after removal of those constraints by holding the blends 5 min in the molten state in the calorimeter. As interfacial agents, two based on succinic anhydride or succinil-fluoresceine grafted atactic polypropylenes were used. The experimental program was run following the Box-Wilson experimental design methodology. Thermal scans were made using round samples (5 mm diameter and 100 μm thick) cut from compression-molded sheets with morphologies and macroscopic behavior studied previously. Changes of the amount of crystallinity of each polymer in the modified blends are contrasted with the tensile strength values of the heterogeneous materials as a whole; evidence of the different roles played by each interfacial agent acting at the interface among blend components is shown.
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