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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 44, Issue 16, Pages 6496-6502Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma200842n
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- Conseil Regional du Nord-Pas de Calais
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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The crystallization kinetics and the resulting structure and morphology of polylactide (PLA) were investigated in the presence of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Nanocomposite samples prepared by solution and melt mixing present homogeneous filler dispersion, as observed by scanning electron microscopy. Calorimetric characterization of the nonisothermal and isothermal crystallization behavior analyzed according to Avrami's theory provides evidence of the significant impact of CNTs on the crystallization kinetics of the PLA matrix. The nucleating effect of the nanofillers is confirmed by Raman spectroscopy experiments. Indeed, during isothermal crystallization, the nanotube characteristic vibrations are strongly affected by the development of polymer crystalline phase. Additionally, CNTs increase the number of nucleation sites and thereby decrease the average spherolite size as observed by optical microscopy. The PLA crystal structure is not modified by the presence of CNTs, as probed by X-ray diffraction.
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