Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2013, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 1288.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20120925

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Crystallization and Tensile Behavior of Poly(L-lactide)/ Poly(ethylene oxide) Blend

XIONG Zu-Jiang1, ZHANG Xiu-Qin2, LIU Guo-Ming1, ZHAO Ying1, WANG Rui2, WANG Du-Jin1   

  1. 1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Clothing Materials R & D and Assessment, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2012-10-11 Online:2013-05-10 Published:2013-05-10

Abstract:

Poly(L-lactic acid)(PLLA) and PLLA/ultra high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide)(PEO) blend were prepared by melt-mixing, respectively. The morphology and the stretching behavior as well as their dependence on stretching temperatures of PLLA and PLLA/PEO blend were studied with a combination of differential scanning calorimetry(DSC), scanning electron microscopy(SEM), and in-situ synchrotron wide-angle X-ray scattering(WAXS). The PLLA/PEO blend exhibited phase-separated morphology, with PEO particles as dispersed phase evenly distributed in PLLA matrix. The addition of PEO remarkably decreases the glass transition temperature(Tg) and increases the crystallization rate of PLLA. The fracture strain of PLLA/PEO blend increases drastically under uniaxial stretching at different temperatures of 25—60 ℃. At lower stretching temperature(60 ℃), the crystallization rate and fracture strain of PLLA/PEO blend increase. At higher stretching temperature(80 ℃), the fracture stain of the blend is lower than that of the pure PLLA, while the crystallization rate is still higher than that of PLLA.

Key words: Poly(L-lactic acid), Ultra high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide), Stretching behavior, Crystallization

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