Kinetic evaluation of the size-dependent decomposition performance of solvent-free microcellular polylactic acid foams

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-89

  Guo, Ge Pu ^a   Ma, Qing Yu ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Zhao, Bo ^a   Zhang, Dong ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cell size; decomposition kinetic performance; PLA foam; thermal gravimetric analysis; tissue engineering scaffold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855382394     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4873-5     Document Type: Article

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