Stereocomplex Crystallite-Assisted Shear-Induced Crystallization Kinetics at a High Temperature for Asymmetric Biodegradable PLLA/PDLA Blends

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 273-283

  Bai, Jing ^a   Wang, Junyang ^a   Wang, Wentao ^a   Fang, Huagao ^b   Xu, Zhaohua ^c   Chen, Xuesi ^d   Wang, Zhigang ^a  

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

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Jiangmen Polytechnic   (China)

^d CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Nucleation; Rheology; Shear; Spherulite; Stereocomplex

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CHAINS; COMPLEXATION; CRYSTALLITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GROWTH KINETICS; ISOTHERMS; KINETICS; NUCLEATION; POLYPROPYLENES; RELAXATION TIME; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEARING;

CRYSTALLINE MORPHOLOGIES; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SHEAR-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; SPHERULITE; SPHERULITIC GROWTH RATE; STEREOCOMPLEXES;

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS;

EID: 84953239803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01110     Document Type: Article

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