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Title: | Effect of wood flour loading and thermal annealing on viscoelastic properties of poly(lactic acid) | ||||||||||
Author: | Hrabalova, Marta; Gregorová, Adriana; Wimmer, Ruppert; Sedlařík, Vladimír; Machovský, Michal; Mundigler, Norbert | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 2010, vol. 118, issue 3, p. 1534-1540 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0021-8995 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/app.32509 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) films filled with up to 50 wt % softwood flour were prepared by melt compounding and thermocompression. Thermal annealing of the melt was performed at temperatures from 90 C to 120 C, for 45 min. Responses on polymer-filler interactions, viscoelastic properties, crystallinity of PLA as well as PLA-wood flour-filled films were investigated by differential scanning kalorimetry (DSC), dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The effectiveness of fillers on the storage moduli (C) was also calculated. The results reveal that wood flour (WF) in conjunction with thermal annealing affected the melting behavior of PLA matrix, and the glass transition temperature. It was further found that the effectiveness of the wood filler in biocomposites widely improved with thermal annealing as well as with higher WF concentration. Finally, it was found that the compatibility between WF and the PLA matrix can be improved when suitable annealing conditions are applied. | ||||||||||
Full text: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.32509/pdf | ||||||||||
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