Journal
MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 306, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/mame.202100021
Keywords
core‐ shell rubber nanoparticles; poly(; l‐ lactide); stereocomplex; stiffness– toughness balance; transparency
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51903025]
- Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission [KJQN201901327]
- Foundation of Chongqing Municipal Science and Technology Commission [cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0983]
- Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (Sichuan University) [sklpme2020-4-07]
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This study presents a promising strategy to improve the transparency and stiffness-toughness performance of PLLA blends toughened with BAMMA core-shell rubber nanoparticles by utilizing SC crystallization. The construction of SC crystallites in the PLLA matrix prevents nanoparticle aggregation and promotes the formation of a network-like structure, leading to enhanced toughening efficiency and transparency.
Toughening modification of poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) with rubber particles is often realized at the cost of transparency, mechanical strength, and modulus because high rubber loadings are generally required for toughening. In this work, a promising strategy to simultaneously improve the transparency and stiffness-toughness performance of poly(butyl acrylate)-poly(methyl methacrylate) (BAMMA) core-shell rubber nanoparticles toughened PLLA blends by utilizing the stereocomplex (SC) crystallization between PLLA and poly(d-lactide) (PDLA) is devised. The results reveal that the construction of SC crystallites in PLLA matrix via melt-mixing PLLA/BAMMA blends with PDLA can prevent BAMMA nanoparticles from aggregation and promote them to form network-like structure at lower contents. As a result, not only higher toughening efficiency with less rubber contents but also superior transparency is achieved in the PLLA/PDLA/BAMMA blends as compared with the PLLA/BAMMA ones where large aggregated BAMMA clusters are formed. Moreover, the outstanding reinforcement of SC crystallites network for PLLA can impart an enhanced tensile strength and modulus to PLLA/PDLA/BAMMA blends, thus improving the stiffness-toughness performance of PLLA/PDLA/BAMMA blends to a higher degree. This work demonstrates that SC crystallization is a promising solution to solve the contradiction between transparency and mechanical properties and then obtain superior comprehensive performances in rubber toughened PLLA blends.
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