Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 255-265Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.12.019
Keywords
Ethylene brassylate; Isodimorphism; Mechanical properties; Structure-function relationship
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1508204, 51803019]
- National Science Foundation of Liaoning Province of China [20180510037]
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High-molecular-weight poly(ethylene brassylate-co-epsilon-caprolactone) copolyesters within a wide composition range were prepared via triphenyl bismuth catalyzed copolymerization of ethylene brassylate (EB) and epsilon-ca-prolactone (epsilon-CL) in bulk. Microstructural analysis of the resulting copolyesters demonstrated that the comonomer units were completely random distribution. DSC and WAXD recognized that the copolyesters cocrystallize within the lattices analogous to either of the parent homopolymers. It confirmed the isodimorphism behavior with a pseudo-eutectic point of melting temperatures as well as lattice spacings at 75 mol% epsilon-CL units. The crystal cell would be stretched in one dimension rather than expanding in both dimensions with the incorporation of comonomer units according to the result of WAXD. The mechanical properties of the copolyesters are well tunable by the composition, and its trend is consistent with the isodimorphism behavior, in particular, the maximum elongation at break over 2000% is located at the pseudo-eutectic point. The intralamellar shear occurred at the low tensile rate while both intralamellar shear and interlamellar shear occurred at high tensile rate. The copolymers exhibit excellent hydrolytic stability.
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