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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
Volume 95, Issue 6, Pages 1045-1053Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.03.004
Keywords
Biodegradation; Heterogeneous nucleation; Isothermal crystallization; Polymorphism; Morphology
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [20634050, 50211302, 20474072]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The effects of nucleating agent multimethyl-benzilidene sorbitol (TM6) on crystallization and morphology of poly(butylene adipate) (PBA) with polymorphic crystal structures were studied by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSc). wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and polarized optical micrographs (POM). In addition to the heterogeneous nucleation, TM6 changes the formation conditions of PBA polymorphic crystals. The addition of TM6 is favorable for the formation of PBA a-form crystals, resulting in the morphological changes from spherulites to interpenetrated fibrils. The influences of TM6 on enzymatic degradation of PBA were studied in terms of the morphological change and weight loss. The results indicate that the a-form crystals induced by TM6 show much slower degradation rate. This work provides an efficient method to control the polymorphic crystal structure and further to regulate the biodegradation rate of polymer materials through modulating the homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation modes by adding nucleating agents. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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