Cell morphology and improved heat resistance of microcellular poly(l -lactide) foam via introducing stereocomplex crystallites of PLA

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2476-2488

  Jia, Pin ^a,b   Hu, Jie ^a   Zhai, Wentao ^b   Duan, Yongxin ^a   Zhang, Jianming ^a   Han, Changyu ^c  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPLEXATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLITES; CYTOLOGY; LACTIC ACID; MELTING POINT; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

CRYSTAL DOMAIN SIZE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY; HIGH HEAT RESISTANCE; HIGHER MELTING POINTS; MESOMORPHIC STRUCTURES; PLLA/PDLA BLENDS; POLY L LACTIC ACID; RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 84924559938     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie504345y     Document Type: Article

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