Mixing process that is accompanied by the chemical reaction(s) of components of a
polymer mixture.
Notes:
- Examples of reactive blending are: (a) blending accompanied by the formation of a
polymer-polymer complex, (b) the formation of block or graft copolymers by a combination of radicals formed by the mechano-chemical scission
of polymers during blending.
- Reactive blending may also be carried out as reactive extrusion or reaction injection
molding (RIM).
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889
(Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric
materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003))
on page 894
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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