Supertough polylactide materials prepared through in situ reactive blending with PEG-based diacrylate monomer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 13552-13563

  Fang, Huagao ^a,b   Jiang, Feng ^a   Wu, Qianghua ^a   Ding, Yunsheng ^b   Wang, Zhigang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

biodegradable; mechanical property; morphology; phase separation; poly(ethylene glycol) diacylate; toughening

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLENDING; CROSSLINKING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FREE RADICALS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMPACT STRENGTH; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLVENTS; TOUGHENING; TOUGHNESS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BIODEGRADABLE; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CRAZING AND SHEAR-YIELDING; IN-SITU POLYMERIZATION; IN-SITU REACTIVE BLENDING; MELT BLENDING PROCESS; NOTCHED IZOD IMPACT STRENGTH; PHASE SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY;

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

BIOMATERIAL; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL)DIACRYLATE; POLYESTER; POLYLACTIDE;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FLOW KINETICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RHEOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84906815208     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502735q     Document Type: Article

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