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Synthesis of poly(vinyl acetate) and poly (vinyl chloride-co-vinyl acetate) low profile additives(LPA), and effects of chemical structure and molecular weight of the LPA on the miscibility of styrene (ST)/unsaturated polyester (UP) resin/LPA ternary systems at room temperature prior to reaction were investigated. The reaction kinetics during the cure at 110℃ and the cured sample morphology for the low-shrink unstaurated polyester resins were also studied by using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) respectively. The phase separation characteristics of ST/UP/LPA systems during the cure, as revealed by the cured sample morphology, could be generaly accounted for by the calculated polarity difference per unit volume between UP adn LPA on the basis of group contribution methods.
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