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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 136, Issue 38, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.47977
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biopolymers and renewable polymers; extrusion; morphology; proteins; rheology; thermoplastics
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Novatein is a thermoplastic polymer made from blood meal proteins, but it has rheological properties very different from commodity thermoplastics. Capillary rheometry revealed an apparent time dependent shear viscosity for Novatein, evident from a decreasing pressure drop over time, measured at constant shear rate. However, blending with polybutylene adipate-co-terephthalate (PBAT) reduced the time dependence for uncompatibilized blends and virtually eliminated time dependence for compatibilized blends containing 30wt % PBAT. Novatein's extensional viscosity is three orders of magnitude more than its shear viscosity and explained the difficulty in sheet extrusion. In contrast, 30% compatibilized blends had an extensional viscosity similar to neat PBAT and was also the only blend that could be successfully sheet extruded. Although uncompatibilized blends at the same or lower PBAT content also had a lower extensional viscosity, they could not be sheet extruded and the difference was the 30% compatibilized blends had a fine PBAT phase structure (co-continuous in this case), which was sufficiently adhered to the Novatein phase. (c) 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2019, 136, 47977.
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