團聯式共聚合物可利用摻合入較小分子量之均聚物的方式，利用均聚物融入團聯式共聚合物相對微相中的膨潤效果來改變系統之形態。而根據所摻合入之均聚物之分子量大小，可將摻合體系統分為wet brush與dry brush。本研究著重於團聯式共聚合物與均聚物的摻合系統，在對稱的團聯式共聚合物PB(11.5k)-b-PCL(12.5k)中，摻和入相對分子量較小的PB均聚物，造成wet brush的效果。
在熔融態的形態上，從實驗之結果中我們可發現，隨著PB均聚物含量的增加，系統之形態會由原本之層狀結構(wPB=0.5~0.6)轉變為六角圓柱堆積(wPB=0.7~0.75)及散亂排列(liquid like)之圓球結構(wPB=0.8~0.85)，而此微相形態的轉變亦會對團聯式共聚合物中PCL鏈段之結晶行為有所影響，造成在DSC的等速率降溫實驗中，PCL鏈段之結晶溫度與系統之微相形態有一對一之關係。
在wPB=0.7的DSC等溫實驗中，不論結晶溫度為何，所得到之Avrami n值皆大於1，顯示是為”breakout”的結晶模式。而隨著結晶溫度的下降，其PCL鏈段之結晶速率在-15℃時會有一個最大值，此最大值是由結晶驅動力與分子鏈運動能力兩因素互相競爭之下所產生的結果；而較特別的是在極低之結晶溫度時(-41℃)，其結晶速率會有一明顯、不連續的增加，而此是由於在極低的結晶溫度時，均質成核對結晶速率的貢獻會明顯增加，造成系統整體之結晶速率有明顯之提升。
而在PCL鏈段結晶之後，不論其熔融態之形態為何，在所觀察之結晶溫度中，其原本之微相形態皆會被結晶所破壞，轉而形成由結晶PCL與amorphous PB交錯堆疊所形成的層狀結構，呈現了breakout的結晶模式。

The morphology of block copolymer can be tailored by blending with the
corresponding homopolymer if the homopolymer is uniformly solubilized in the
microdomain. Depending on the molecular weight of the homopolymer, the blend
system may exhibit “wet-brush” phase behavior or “dry-brush” phase behavior in the
melt. In this report, we study the morphology and crystallization kinetics of a series of
wet-brush blends of a symmetric polybutadiene-block-poly( ε -caprolactone)
（ PB-b-PCL ） and a low molecular weight homopolymer PB.
In the study of melt state morphology, we found that as the weight fraction of PB
increases, the microdomain structure of the blend system changes from
lamellae(wPB=0.5~0.6) to hexagonally-packed PCL cylinder(wPB=0.7~0.75) and
liquid-like packed PCL sphere (wPB=0.8~0.85). The crystallization behavior of PCL is
strongly affected by this morphological transformation; their crystallization rate was
highly sensitive to the microdomain morphology. The fixed cooling rate experiment in
the DSC revealed that freezing temperature exhibits one to one correlation with the
meet to the melt state morphology.
The isothermal crystallization kinetics in wPB=0.7 was properly described by the
classical Avrami equation, indicating that the crystallization started from
heterogeneous nucleation followed by long-range crystal growth. There has a
maximum in crystallization rate Due to the competition between crystallization
driving force and mobility of PCL block. We also found an unusual increase in
crystallization rate at –41 ℃ ,because at very low crystallization temperature,
homogeneous nucleation dominated crystallization rate and increased overall
crystallization rate.
After PCL crystallized, melt state morphology were all destroyed and become the
morphology consisting of alternating amorphous PB and crystalline PCL lamellae,
show the “breakout” crystallization mode.

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