Journal
POLYMER TESTING
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 412-418Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2009.01.012
Keywords
Poly(lactic acid); Multiple extrusion; Mechanical properties; Material recycling
Funding
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
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The effect of multiple (up to 10 times) extrusion of polylactide on its mechanical properties (determined by a static tension test), Charpy impact strength, melt flow rate, phase transition temperatures, degradation temperature, and permeability of water vapour and oxygen is presented. It was found that, with raising the number of the extrusion cycles, the tensile strength at break slightly diminished and the impact strength clearly decreased, while the melt flow rate and water vapour and oxygen transmission rates steadily increased. Variation of the number of extrusion cycles did not affect the glass transition temperature, whereas it did cause a lowering of the cold crystallisation temperature and slight diminishing of the melting point. The presented results indicate that PLA technological waste is suitable to be reused as an additive to a neat polymer. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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