TY - JOUR ID - 6639 TI - Preparation and Properties of Polycaprolactone/Poly (Butylene Terephthalate) Blend JO - Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering JA - IJCCE LA - en SN - 1021-9986 AU - Saeed, Khalid AU - Park, Soo -Young AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Malakand, Chakdara dir (L), Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, PAKISTAN AD - Department of Polymer Science, Kyungpook National University, # 1370 Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, SOUTH KOREA Y1 - 2010 PY - 2010 VL - 29 IS - 3 SP - 77 EP - 81 KW - Polycaprolactone KW - Blend KW - Morphology KW - Thermal properties DO - 10.30492/ijcce.2010.6639 N2 - Polycaprolactone (PCL) and poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) blend was prepared by melt processing. The PCL/PBT blend showed similar morphology with that of pure PCL.The crystallization temperature of PCL was increased by the incorporation of PBT. It was also observed that the peak height in the DSC thermograms decreased and then disappeared by adding 40 % or more PBT which might be due to the transestrification between –OH end groups of PCL and ester groups of PBT. The size of PCL spherulites was about 13 µm which  decreased highly in the case of blends due to the nucleation effect. The thermal stability of the PCL/PBT blend was higher than pure PCL. UR - https://ijcce.ac.ir/article_6639.html L1 - https://ijcce.ac.ir/article_6639_a86491fe3fd4c8efee4e7f7438fb064a.pdf ER -