Polymer Blend
This AFM tapping/phase mode image shows the bulk-morphology of a partially miscible blend of isotactic polypropylene (matrix) and of a non-crystalline polyethylene copolymer. Within the polyethylene phases single i-PP lamellae are visible.
For more details see:
Miscibility of Branched Ethene Homopolymers with Iso- and Syndiotactic Polypropenes.
Jürgen Marquardt, Ralf Thomann, Yi Thomann, Johannes Heinemann and Rolf Mülhaupt
Macromolecules, 2001, 34, (25), 8669-8674
