화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Macromolecular Research, Vol.18, No.4, 346-351, April, 2010
DOI10.1007/s13233-010-0410-7  Export Citation
Influences of Physical Aging on Enthalpy Relaxation Behavior, Gas Permeability, and Dynamic Mechanical Property of Polylactide Films with Various D-isomer Contents
Mirinae Kwon, Sang Cheol Lee, and Young Gyu Jeong†
  • School of Advanced Materials and System Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gyeongbuk, 730-701, Korea
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We report the isothermal enthalpy relaxation behavior, gas permeability, and dynamic mechanical properties of melt-quenched amorphous polylactide (PLA) films with various D-isomer contents (1, 4, and 9 mol%) as a function of the aging temperature (Ta) and time (ta). It was found that the enthalpy relaxation peak area (ΔHrelax) and glass transition temperature (Tg) of all PLA samples aged at a given Ta increased initially and then remained relatively unchanged with increasing ta. The experimental ΔHrelax vs. ta plots were fitted well with the Cowie-Ferguson equation incorporating the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts (KWW) function. A comparison of the PLA samples aged at a similar degree of subcooling (ΔT = Tg-Ta) showed that the ultimate ΔHrelax was somewhat higher for a PLA film with a lower D-isomer content. In addition, the oxygen permeability of all PLA films decreased linearly with increasing ta, which is due to the densification of glassy PLA films during physical aging. The dynamic mechanical data demonstrated that for the aged PLA films, the storage moduli around glass transition region increased significantly and the loss moduli peak corresponding to the glass transition region shifted to higher temperatures and became narrower.
Keywords:polylactide;enthalpy relaxation;gas permeability;dynamic mechanical property;glass transition temperature;physical aging
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