Effects of transesterification and degradation on properties and structure of polycaprolactone-polylactide copolymers

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2596-2602

  Lipik, Vitali T ^a   Widjaja, Leonardus K ^a   Liow, Sing S ^a   Abadie, Marc J M ^a   Venkatraman, Subramanian S ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Decarboxylation; Dehydration; Polycaprolactone; Polylactide; Transesterification

Indexed keywords

ANIONIC RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION; CAPROLACTONE; CYCLIC STRUCTURES; DECARBOXYLATION; DEHYDRATION REACTIONS; DOUBLE BONDS; ESTER BONDS; HYDROXY ESTERS; L-LACTIDE; MALDI-TOF; NMR SPECTRUM; POLY (L-LACTIDE); POLY LACTIDE; POLYLACTIDE COPOLYMERS; POLYMER STRUCTURE; RANDOM COPOLYMER; TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION;

ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION; BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; CARBOXYLATION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; CROSSLINKING; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYCAPROLACTONE; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 78649443784     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.07.027     Document Type: Article

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