Overcoming the fundamental challenges in improving the impact strength and crystallinity of PLA biocomposites: Influence of nucleating agent and mold temperature

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 11203-11214

  Nagarajan, Vidhya ^a,b   Zhang, Kunyu ^a,b   Misra, Manjusri ^a,b   Mohanty, Amar K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

crystallization; heat deflection temperature; impact strength; injection molding; mold temperature; nucleating agent; poly(lactic acid)

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; BIOPOLYMERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE; INJECTION MOLDING; LACTIC ACID; MOLDS; POLYPROPYLENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEXTILE BLENDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FRACTURE SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; HEAT DEFLECTION TEMPERATURE; MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES; MOLD TEMPERATURES; NUCLEATING AGENTS; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLY LACTIC ACID; WIDE ANGLE XRAY DIFFRACTION;

IMPACT STRENGTH;

CRYSTALLIZATION; IMPACT STRENGTH; INJECTION MOLDING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

LACTIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; POACEAE; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; LACTIC ACID; MATERIALS TESTING; PLANT EXTRACTS; POACEAE; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84930629071     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01145     Document Type: Article

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