Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) - Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Composite Films from Water Systems: Formation, Strength-Deformation Characteristics, Fracture
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2016
Nataļja Geisari, Mārtiņš Kalniņš

The object of investigation was thin (< 200 m) films, formed by casting fro m water based mixtures of poly(vinyl a lcohol) (PVA ) water solution and poly (vinyl acetate) (PVAc) water suspension. Starting systems hence were suspensions of plasticized PVAc partic les in PVA water solution. Systems with full range of PVAc volume fraction PVAc were studied. Kinetic re lationships of several para meters which characterize film formation in dry ing process were co mpared and scrutinized. It revealed that the main factor which restrains coalescence of PVAc part icles in the composite is high v iscosity of PVA water solution at the final stage of composite structure formation. In tensile defo rmation conditions PVA/ PVAc systems behave as being PVA matrix co mposites in a whole range of PVAc content . Use of Kerner approach, based on the self-consistency idea, for the analysis of ECOMP(PVAc) relation, confirms the continuity of PVA matrix.


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DOI
10.1088/1757-899X/111/1/012009

Geisari, N., Kalniņš, M. Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) - Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Composite Films from Water Systems: Formation, Strength-Deformation Characteristics, Fracture. In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Latvia, Sigulda, 16-18 September, 2015. UK: IOP Publishing, 2016, pp.012009-012009. ISSN 1757-8981. e-ISSN 1757-899X. Available from: doi:10.1088/1757-899X/111/1/012009

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