• Study on Compatibility Between Aliphatic Polyketone and Poly(styrene-r-acrylonitrile)
  • Jungyeon Park and Younggon Son*,†

  • Korea Automotive Technology Institute, 303 Pungse-ro, Pungse-myeon, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungnam 31214, Korea
    *Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan, Chungnam 31080, Korea

  • 지방족 폴리케톤과 스티렌-아크릴로니트릴 공중합체 간의 상용성에 관한 연구
  • 박정연 · 손영곤*,†

  • 한국자동차연구원, *공주대학교 신소재공학부

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Abstract

Aliphatic polyketone (PK) was melt-blended with two types of poly(styrene-r-acrylonitrile) (SAN45 and SAN56) having different acrylonitrile (AN) contents, and the thermal properties, mechanical properties, morphology, and cross-linking behavior of the blends were investigated. Compatibility between PK and SAN improved with increasing AN content, and PK/SAN56 blends exhibited a finer dispersed-phase morphology and higher impact strength compared to PK/SAN45 blends. Although the increase in insoluble fraction and impact strength of PK/SAN56 blends with prolonged mixing time initially suggested that SAN56 promotes cross-linking of PK, mixing torque measurements and re-melting experiments confirmed that SAN56 in fact suppresses cross-linking of PK. Accordingly, it was found that the addition of a small amount of high-AN-content SAN to PK improves the thermal stability of PK without compromising its mechanical properties.


지방족 폴리케톤(PK)과 아크릴로니트릴(AN) 함량이 45와 56 mol%인 두 종류의 poly(styrene-r-acrylonitrile) (SAN45, SAN56)을 용융 블렌딩하여 블렌드의 열적 특성, 기계적 물성, 형태학 및 가교 반응을 고찰하였다. AN 함량이 증가할수록 PK와 SAN의 상용성이 향상되었으며, PK/SAN56 블렌드는 PK/SAN45 블렌드보다 미세한 분산상 구조와 더 높은 충격강도를 나타냈다. PK/SAN56 블렌드는 혼련 시간이 증가함에 따라 미용해 성분과 충격강도가 증가하여 SAN56이 PK의 가교화를 촉진시키는 것 같은 결과를 얻었으나 혼련 토크 및 블렌드의 재용융 실험으로 실제로는 SAN56이 PK의 가교화를 억제한다는 것을 확인하였다. 이에 따라 고 AN 함량의 SAN을 PK에 소량 투입하면 PK의 물성 감소 없이 열안정성을 개선한다는 것을 확인하였다.


Keywords: aliphatic polyketone, styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer, cross-linking, miscibility, polymer blend.

  • Polymer(Korea) 폴리머
  • Frequency : Bimonthly(odd)
    ISSN 2234-8077(Online)
    Abbr. Polym. Korea
  • 2025 Impact Factor : 1.0
  • Indexed in SCIE

This Article

  • 2026; 50(5): 718-725

    Published online Sep 25, 2026

  • 10.7317/pk.2026.50.5.718
  • Received on May 14, 2026
  • Revised on Jul 10, 2026
  • Accepted on Jul 20, 2026

Correspondence to

  • Younggon Son
  • Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan, Chungnam 31080, Korea

  • E-mail: sonyg@kongju.ac.kr