The extent of reactions occurring during reactive blending of thermoplastic polyurethanes (PUR) with functionalized polyolefins or reactive compatibilizers has been studied using ethylene/acrylic acid and styrene/maleic anhydride copolymers. Due to interfacial segregation effects, no reaction was found with carboxylic groups and only little with anhydrides. Here 1–2% reaction products are generated after 30 min with preferentially multiple additions at the same molecules. Therefore, with incompatible polymers, reactive coupling is negligible with PUR under realistic blending conditions.
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