TY - JOUR
T1 - Poly(L-lactic acid) bio-composites reinforced by oligo(D-lactic acid) grafted chitosan for simultaneously improved ductility, strength and modulus
AU - Li, Wei
AU - Sun, Qisong
AU - Mu, Bingnan
AU - Luo, Guiqing
AU - Xu, Helan
AU - Yang, Yiqi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was financially supported by the Hatch Act Multistate Research Project S-1054 (NEB37-037) of USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Agricultural Research Division at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists Students Grant. Authors are grateful to China Scholarship Council for its financial support to Wei Li and John and Louise Skala Fellowship for its financial support to Bingnan Mu.
Funding Information:
This research was financially supported by the Hatch Act Multistate Research Project S-1054 ( NEB37-037 ) of USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture , the Agricultural Research Division at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists Students Grant . Authors are grateful to China Scholarship Council for its financial support to Wei Li and John and Louise Skala Fellowship for its financial support to Bingnan Mu.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/6/15
Y1 - 2019/6/15
N2 - PLA bio-composites reinforced by oligo(D-lactic acid) grafted chitosan has been developed for simultaneously improved ductility, strength and modulus. Brittleness problem greatly limits the applications of PLA, a polymer derived from corn. Various methods have been developed to solve the brittleness problem. Unfortunately, these methods have their limitations, such as sacrifice of strength and modulus of PLA, use of toxic chemicals and high costs. Bio-based elastomers such as chitosan also have poor compatibility with PLA, leading to poor mechanical properties. The hypothesis for this research is that CS-g-oligo(D-LA) particles with good ductility could form strong interfacial interactions with PLLA matrix. Reinforcing effect of CS-g-oligo(D-LA) particles on PLLA matrix was systematically studied. Compatibility and intermolecular interactions between CS-g-oligo(D-LA) particles and PLLA matrix were studied by SEM, DSC and 13 C NMR analyses. The reinforcing mechanism was summarized. Due to effective transfer of stress from PLLA matrix to the strong but ductile skeletons of CS-g-oligo(D-LA), ductility, strength and modulus of PLLA bio-composites were substantially improved. This novel reinforcing strategy via formation of strong interactions between enantiomeric lactyl units would enrich the fabrication and exploration of high-performance PLA-based bio-composites.
AB - PLA bio-composites reinforced by oligo(D-lactic acid) grafted chitosan has been developed for simultaneously improved ductility, strength and modulus. Brittleness problem greatly limits the applications of PLA, a polymer derived from corn. Various methods have been developed to solve the brittleness problem. Unfortunately, these methods have their limitations, such as sacrifice of strength and modulus of PLA, use of toxic chemicals and high costs. Bio-based elastomers such as chitosan also have poor compatibility with PLA, leading to poor mechanical properties. The hypothesis for this research is that CS-g-oligo(D-LA) particles with good ductility could form strong interfacial interactions with PLLA matrix. Reinforcing effect of CS-g-oligo(D-LA) particles on PLLA matrix was systematically studied. Compatibility and intermolecular interactions between CS-g-oligo(D-LA) particles and PLLA matrix were studied by SEM, DSC and 13 C NMR analyses. The reinforcing mechanism was summarized. Due to effective transfer of stress from PLLA matrix to the strong but ductile skeletons of CS-g-oligo(D-LA), ductility, strength and modulus of PLLA bio-composites were substantially improved. This novel reinforcing strategy via formation of strong interactions between enantiomeric lactyl units would enrich the fabrication and exploration of high-performance PLA-based bio-composites.
KW - Bio-composites
KW - Brittleness
KW - Modified chitosan
KW - Oligo(D-lactic acid) grafting
KW - PLA
KW - Reinforcement
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.03.098
DO - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.03.098
M3 - Article
C2 - 30890341
AN - SCOPUS:85063091870
VL - 131
SP - 495
EP - 504
JO - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
JF - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
SN - 0141-8130
ER -