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MATERIALS
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma13092111
Keywords
polylactide; thermal degradation; hydrolytic degradation; fibres; kinetic of erosion; kinetics of degradation
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- European Regional Development Fund [POIG.01.03.01-00-007/08-00]
- Institute of Material Science of Textiles and Polymer Composites [I-42/501/4-42-1-1]
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In this study, differences in the kinetics of the thermal-supported hydrolytic degradation of polylactide (PLA) wet spinning fibres due to material variance in the initial molecular and supramolecular structure were analysed. The investigation was carried out at the microstructural and molecular levels by using readily available methods such as scanning electron microscopy, mass erosion measurement and estimation of intrinsic viscosity. The results show a varying degree of influence of the initial structure on the degradation rate of the studied PLA fibres. The experiment shows that hydrolytic degradation at a temperature close to the cold crystallization temperature is, on a macroscopic level, definitely more rapid for the amorphous material, while on a molecular scale it is similar to a semi-crystalline material. Furthermore, for the adopted degradation temperature of 90 degrees C, a marginal influence of the pH of the degradation medium on the degradation kinetics was also demonstrated.
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