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