Biodegradation and thermal decomposition of poly(lactic acid)-based materials reinforced by hydrophilic fillers

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1704-1707

  Petinakis, Eustathios ^a,b   Liu, Xingxun ^a,b,c   Yu, Long ^a,c   Way, Cameron ^a   Sangwan, Parveen ^a   Dean, Katherine ^a   Bateman, Stuart ^a   Edward, Graham ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Degradation; Hydrophilic filler; PLA; Starch; Wood flour

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION RATE; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE; FILLER CONTENTS; HYDROPHILIC FILLER; HYDROPHILIC FILLERS; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION; PLA; POLAR MOLECULES; POLY(LACTIC ACID); POLYLACTIC ACIDS; PURE CELLULOSE; SEM; STARCH CONTENTS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

BIODEGRADATION; BODY FLUIDS; DEGRADATION; HYDROPHILICITY; LACTIC ACID; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHOTORESISTS; PYROLYSIS; STARCH; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WOOD;

FILLERS;

COMPOSITES; DEGRADATION; FILLERS; FLUID; GRAVIMETRY; LACTIC ACID; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PYROLYSIS; STARCH; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WATER; WETTABILITY; WOOD;

EID: 77955517688     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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