Scandola M, Ceccorulli G, Doi Y. Viscoelastic relaxations and thermal properties of bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate).
Int J Biol Macromol 1990;
12:112-7. [PMID:
2078527 DOI:
10.1016/0141-8130(90)90062-f]
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Abstract
3-Hydroxybutyrate-3-hydroxyvalerate (3HB-3HV) as well as 3-hydroxybutyrate-4-hydroxybutyrate (3HB-4HB) copolyesters have been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis and dynamic mechanical spectroscopy, over a wide range of compositions (0-95 mol% 3HV; 0-82 mol% 4HB). Both series of isolated copolyesters are partially crystalline at all compositions. Quenched samples show a glass transition that decreases linearly with increasing co-monomer molar fraction, more markedly when the co-monomer is 4HB. Above Tg, all copolyesters, rich in 3HB units, show a cold crystallization phenomenon followed by melting, while at the other end crystallization on heating is observed only in 3HB-3HV copolymers. The viscoelastic spectrum, strongly affected by thermal history, shows two relaxation regions: the glass transition, whose location depends on copolymer type and composition, and a secondary dispersion region at low temperatures (-130/-80 degrees C). The latter results from a water-related relaxation analogous to that of P(3HB) and, in 3HB-4HB copolymers, from another overlapping absorption peak centered at -130 degrees C, attributed to local motion of the methylene groups in the linear 4HB units.
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