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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 18-24Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2008.10.016
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Biomaterials; 2,2 '-Bis(2-oxazoline); Poly(3-hydroxylbutyrate-co-3-hydroxylvalerate) (PHBV); Renewable resources; Thermal stability
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- Committee of Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipality [06JC14003]
- Shanghai Dawn Project [06GG08]
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Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) has attracted the attention of academia and industry because of its biodegradability, biocompatibility, thermoplasticity and plastic-like properties. However, PHBV is unstable above 160 degrees C during melt processing at a temperature above the melting temperature, which restricts practical applications as a commodity material. It is widely believed that thermal degradation of PHBV occurs almost exclusively via a random chain scission mechanism involving a six-membered ring transition state. Here, 2,2'-bis(2-oxazoline) (BOX) was selected to modify PHBV to control the formation of six-membered ring ester during thermal degradation. The resulting hydroxyl-terminated PHBVs (HT-PHBVs) had improved thermal stability due to a decrease in the negative inductive effect of the neighboring group of methylene groups at the beta-position to the ester oxygen, and a decrease in the electron-denoting effect of substituent group of carbon atoms at alpha-position to the ester oxygen. The optimal reaction temperature and time were determined to be 95 C and 6 h, respectively. Compared with those of original PHBV, the temperature determined at 5% weight loss (T-5%), the initial decomposition temperature (T-0), the maximum decomposition temperature (T-max), the complete decomposition temperature (T-f) of HT-PHBV prepared under the optimal conditions increased by 31, 24, 19 and 19.1 degrees C, respectively. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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