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POLYMER INTERNATIONAL
Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 284-295Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pi.2947
Keywords
poly(L-lactide); nucleating agents; crystallization; enzymatic hydrolysis
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- National Science Foundation of China [50703042]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KTCX-YW-208]
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Poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) was prepared via melt blending and nucleated using three layered metal phosphonates, i.e. zinc phenylphosphonate (PPZn), calcium phenylphosphonate (PPCa) and barium phenylphosphonate (PPBa). The morphology, crystallization and enzymatic hydrolysis of PLLA nucleated using PPZn, PPCa and PPBa were investigated. The results of both wide-angle X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy observations show that the layers of PPZn, PPCa or PPBa are barely exfoliated or intercalated by PLLA chains in the melt-blending process. PPZn, PPCa and PPBa serve as effective nucleating agents, accelerating both non-isothermal and isothermal crystallization and enzymatic hydrolysis of PLLA. An interesting aspect is that the nucleating ability of PLLA incorporating PPZn, PPCa and PPBa decreases in the order PPZn > PPCa > PPBa, whereas the enzymatic hydrolysis of PLLA incorporating PPZn, PPCa and PPBa decreases in the reverse order, which is due to the different dispersion and interfacial interactions of PPZn, PPCa and PPBa throughout the PLLA matrix. (C) 2010 Society of Chemical Industry
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