Insight into the annealing peak and microstructural changes of poly(l-lactic acid) by annealing at elevated temperatures

Polymer

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 3377-3384

  Wei, Zhiyong ^a   Song, Ping ^a   Zhou, Cheng ^a   Chen, Guangyi ^a   Chang, Ying ^a   Li, Jianfeng ^a   Zhang, Wanxi ^a   Liang, Jicai ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Annealing peak; Microstructural changes; Poly(l lactic acid)

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ENTHALPY; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; HEAT TRANSFER; LACTIC ACID; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

ANNEALING PEAKS; COLD CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS (DMA); MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES; POLY L LACTIC ACID; RIGID AMORPHOUS FRACTION (RAF); TEMPERATURE MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANNEALING;

EID: 84878371661     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.04.027     Document Type: Article

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