China Plastics ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (8): 30-35.DOI: 10.19491/j.issn.1001-9278.2020.08.005

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Preparation and Properties of Hydrophilic PET Blends

Weina CAO, Yahao ZHAO, Mengjie ZHOU, Jingwen ZHAI, Xiang YU()   

  1. Department of Material and Chemical Engineering, Henan Institute of Engineering, Zhengzhou 450007, China
  • Received:2020-02-10 Online:2020-08-26 Published:2020-08-26

Abstract:

In this study, PET blends were prepared by a melt blending method, and their hydrophilic, thermal and mechanical properties were investigated by contact angle meter, DSC and electronic universal material testing machine, etc. The results indicated that the hydrophilic properties of the blends were improved by incorporating hydrophilic reagents like PEG, PAAS and PVP. However, there was little influence from hydrophilic reagents on the mechanical properties of the PET blends. The PET/PEG blends presented the greatest hydrophilicity among these hydrophilic reagents, and the hydrophilicity of PET/PEG blends increased gradually with an increase of PEG content. However, the hydrophilicity of the blends kept stable when the PEG content exceeded 5 wt%. Moreover, the crystallinity of PET increased at first and then tended to decrease with an increase of PEG.

Key words: poly(ethylene terephthalate), poly(ethylene glycol), hydrophilic property, blend

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