# MACROMOLECULAR MICRO COMPOSITES: FUNDAMENTALS AND A SYSTEM OF A BLEND OF POLYAMIDE-IMIDE / POLYETHERIMIDE

> Title: MACROMOLECULAR MICRO COMPOSITES: FUNDAMENTALS AND A SYSTEM OF A BLEND OF POLYAMIDE-IMIDE / POLYETHERIMIDE Page Range: p.1-16 Author(s): Sanjay Palsule; Kuldeep Nagar; Shyopat Ram; Himanshu Shekhar Click Here to Download Now! - File size: (subscribers only) Journal: Applied Polymer Composites Issue...

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Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Categories: Applied Polymer Composites

**Title: MACROMOLECULAR MICRO COMPOSITES: FUNDAMENTALS AND A SYSTEM OF A BLEND OF POLYAMIDE-IMIDE / POLYETHERIMIDE**
 ![](http://apc.jpg)Page Range: p.1-16
 Author(s): Sanjay Palsule; Kuldeep Nagar; Shyopat Ram; Himanshu Shekhar
 ![](http://dload.gif)Click Here to Download Now! - File size: (subscribers only)![](http://pdf.gif)
 Journal: Applied Polymer Composites
 Issue Year: apc
 Volume: 2
 Issue No: No. 1

**Abstract**
 A new concept of a 'Macromolecular Micro Composite' is proposed as a melt processable and thermodynamically miscible blend of a flexible polymer and a quasi-rigid polymer in which the flexible polymer is molecularly reinforced by a quasi-rigid macromolecule offering synergistic properties and improved mechanical properties as compared to those of the constituent flexible polymer. Fundamentals are presented and the concept is established, herewith, by melt processing a miscible macromolecular micro composite of flexible polyetherimide reinforced by quasi rigid polyamide-imide with improved mechanical properties as compared to those of flexible polyether-imide. Advantages of macromolecular micro composites over molecular composites, self reinforced blends, and other molecularly reinforced polymer blends are discussed. 23 Refs.