Abstract
Interactions play a decisive role in polymer-polymer miscibility. However, direct elucidation of interactions from thermodynamic mixing properties is experimentally cumbersome because of high viscosity and the glass transition temperature (Tg) effects in polymer systems, and because there are theoretical problems attributable to its mean-field approximation. Therefore we are interested in Monte Carlo (MC) simulations which overcome some of these restrictions and are an alternative to the experimental and theoretical approaches. Results of such simulations are available for only a few model systems. We present the results of three applications of the MC method to polymer blend systems.
