PMID- 30961106
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231004
IS  - 2073-4360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4360 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 11
DP  - 2018 Oct 24
TI  - Melt Crystallization Behavior and Crystalline Morphology of 
      Polylactide/Poly(epsilon-caprolactone) Blends Compatibilized by Lactide-Caprolactone 
      Copolymer.
LID - 10.3390/polym10111181 [doi]
LID - 1181
AB  - Lactide-Caprolactone copolymer (LACL) was added to a 
      Polylactide/Poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PLA/PCL) blend as a compatibilizer through 
      solution mixing and the casting method. The melt crystallization behavior and 
      crystalline morphology of PLA, PLA/PCL, and PLA/PCL/LACL were investigated using 
      differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM), 
      respectively. The temperature of the shortest crystallization time for the 
      samples was observed at 105  degrees C. The overall isothermal melt crystallization 
      kinetics of the three samples were further studied using the Avrami theory. Neat 
      PLA showed a higher half-time of crystallization than that of the PLA/PCL and 
      PLA/PCL/LACL blends, whereas the half-time of crystallization of PLA/PCL and 
      PLA/PCL/LACL showed no significant difference. The addition of PCL decreased the 
      spherulite size of crystallized PLA, and the nuclei density in the PLA/PCL/LACL 
      blend was much higher than that of the PLA and PLA/PCL samples, indicating that 
      LACL had a compatibilization effect on the immiscible PLA/PCL blend, thereby 
      promoting the nucleation of PLA. The spherulites in the PLA/PCL and PLA/PCL/LACL 
      blend exhibited a smeared and rough morphology, which can be attributed to the 
      fact that PCL molecules migrated to the PLA spherulitic surface during the 
      crystallization of PLA.
FAU - Zhang, Chunmei
AU  - Zhang C
AD  - College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang 
      550005, China. zhangzhang_87@126.com.
FAU - Lan, Qiaofeng
AU  - Lan Q
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8941-6736
AD  - Biomaterials Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical 
      University, Guangzhou 510515, China. lanqf2016@gmail.com.
FAU - Zhai, Tianliang
AU  - Zhai T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1203-350X
AD  - Guizhou Building Material Quality Supervision Testing Center, Guiyang 550000, 
      China. ztl.mzl@163.com.
FAU - Nie, Shengqiang
AU  - Nie S
AD  - College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang 
      550005, China. nieshq1987@163.com.
FAU - Luo, Jun
AU  - Luo J
AD  - College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang 
      550005, China. luojun_gyu@sina.com.
FAU - Yan, Wei
AU  - Yan W
AD  - College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang 
      550005, China. lrasyw@163.com.
LA  - eng
GR  - GYU-KYZ[2018]03-3/Special Funding of Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau and 
      Guiyang University/
GR  - 2017158134/Major Construction Project of First-rate University in Guizhou 
      Province/
GR  - [2016]089/Natural Science Research Project of Guizhou Provincial Department of 
      Education/
GR  - 51703038/Natural Science Foundation of China/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20181024
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Polymers (Basel)
JT  - Polymers
JID - 101545357
PMC - PMC6290593
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - compatibilization
OT  - melt crystallization
OT  - poly(epsilon-caprolactone)
OT  - polylactide
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in: the 
      design of the study; the collection, analyses, or interpretation of the data; the 
      writing of the manuscript; or the decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2019/04/10 06:00
MHDA- 2019/04/10 06:01
PMCR- 2018/10/24
CRDT- 2019/04/10 06:00
PHST- 2018/08/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/10/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/10/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/04/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/04/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/04/10 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/10/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - polym10111181 [pii]
AID - polymers-10-01181 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/polym10111181 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Polymers (Basel). 2018 Oct 24;10(11):1181. doi: 10.3390/polym10111181.