ABSTRACT

Blending of immiscible polymers is an efficient approach to designing polymeric materials with specific and beneficial properties. In many of these blends, a semicrystalline component is involved. The properties of such partly semicrystalline blends are not only governed by their phase morphology and blend interfacial structure, but also strongly depend on the crystallization behavior of the semicrystalline component (1). This crystallization behavior is often complex and is strongly influenced by the blend phase morphology generated.