Predicting the Visco-Elastic Properties of Polystyrene/SIS Composite Blends Using Simple Analytical Micromechanics Models

A team of researchers from UK, Japan and Switzerland led by Andrei Gusev (Polymer Physics) explored the use of a two-phase analytical micromechanics model to predict the viscoelastic attributes of the phase-separated binary polymer blends with the complicated sub-micron morphology. The outcomes indicated a great opportunity for using the micromechanics models to analyze how the blend morphology affects the measured properties, using unaltered bulk attributes of the constituent phases.