Yang B, Zhang X, Wang C, Liu R, Fan B, Zhang H, Sun H. Effect of polyvinyl acetals on non-isothermal crystallization behaviour and mechanical properties of poly(ε-caprolactone).
RSC Adv 2019;
9:36815-36824. [PMID:
35539042 PMCID:
PMC9075173 DOI:
10.1039/c9ra08133j]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Melt shearing made the crystallinity of as-received PCL increased and the crystallization temperature raised by 7.7 °C. Polyvinyl acetals increased the spherulite size of PCL from a few microns to 200 μm and PVB improved the Young’s modulus of PCL by 67%.
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