Polymer Blend

The TEM image shows the RuO₄ stained 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

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