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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
Volume 59, Issue 16, Pages 7624-7632Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c00537
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773122]
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering [sklpme2019-2-21]
- EPSRC [EP/L027011/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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By controlling the crystallization behavior of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) in the presence of a hydrazide nucleating agent (HNA), PLA-HNA foams with enhanced microcellular structures were prepared via supercritical CO2 foaming. It was found that HNA can self-assemble into fibrillar networks, inducing the crystallization of PLA on their surface, and shishkebab crystalline structures with high crystallinity formed, which can be maintained during the whole foaming process. Incorporation of HNA promoted the formation of gt conformers, improved the amount of dissolved CO2, hindered the escape of CO2, and increased the viscoelasticity of PLA. Compared with neat PLA foam, for PLA-HNA foam, the average cell diameter decreased obviously, from 64.39 to 6.59 mu m, while the cell density increased up to nearly three orders of magnitudes, from 6.82 X 10(6) to 4.44 X 10(9) cells/cm(3). Moreover, lots of fibrillar structures appeared and entangled with each other on the cell wall of the foam. By forming such dense micropores and enhanced fibrillar structures, PLA foam was highly reinforced with significantly improved compressive strength.
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