Peculiar Spherulitic Morphologies and Melting Behavior of Block Copolymer Containing Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) and Poly(ε-caprolactone) Units

Qingsheng Liu; Tien-Wei Shyr; Chia-Hsin Tung; Meifang Zhu; Bingyao Deng

Macromolecular Research, Vol.19, No.12, 1220-1223, December, 2011

DOI10.1007/s13233-012-1204-2 Export Citation

Peculiar Spherulitic Morphologies and Melting Behavior of Block Copolymer Containing Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) and Poly(ε-caprolactone) Units

Qingsheng Liu^{1, 2}, Tien-Wei Shyr^{3, †}, Chia-Hsin Tung³, Meifang Zhu^{1, 4, †}, and Bingyao Deng²

¹State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, P. R. China
²Key Laboratory of Eco-Textiles (Ministry of Education), Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, P. R. China
³Institute of Textile Engineering, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Korea
⁴, China

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[1] Liu QS, Zhu MF, Wu WH, Qin ZY, Polym.Degrad. Stab., 94, 18 (2009)

[2] Liu KL, Choo ESG, Wong SY, Li X, Bin He C, Wang J, Li J, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114(22), 7489 (2010)

[3] Chan KHK, Wong SY, Li X, Zhang YZ, Lim PC, Lim CT, Kotaki M, He CB, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113(40), 13179 (2009)

[4] Choi C, Chae SY, Nah JW, Polymer, 47(13), 4571 (2006)

[5] Qiu ZB, Yang WT, Ikehara T, Nishi T, Polymer, 46(25), 11814 (2005)

[6] Jenkins MJ, Cao Y, Howell L, Leeke GA, Polymer, 48(21), 6304 (2007)

[7] Sarazin P, Li G, Orts WJ, Favis BD, Polymer, 49(2), 599 (2008)

[8] Scherer TM, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1996)

[9] Kunioka M, Tamaki A, Doi Y, Macromolecules., 22, 694 (1989)

[10] Shikanov A, Kumar N, Domb AJ, Isr. J. Chem., 45, 393 (2005)

[11] Abe H, Macromol. Biosci., 6, 469 (2006)

[12] Nguyen S, Yu GE, Marchessault RH, Biomacromolecules, 3(1), 219 (2002)

[13] Shin YM, Shin H, Lim YM, Macromol. Res., 18(5), 472 (2010)

[14] Wei M, Shuai XT, Tonelli AE, Biomacromolecules, 4(3), 783 (2003)

[15] Zhang XQ, Yang H, Liu QW, Zheng Y, Xie HF, Wang ZL, Cheng RS, J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem., 43(20), 4857 (2005)

[16] Hirt TD, Neuenschwander P, Suter UW, Macromol.Chem. Phys., 197, 4253 (1996)

[17] Saad B, Hirt TD, Welti M, Uhlschmid GK, Neuenschwander P, Suter UW, J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 36, 65 (1997)

[18] Li QS, Deng BY, Tung CH, Zhu MF, Shyr TW, J. Polym. Sci. B: Polym. Phys., 48(21), 2288 (2010)

[19] Liu Q, Shyr TW, Tung CH, Deng B, Zhu M, Fibers Polym., Accepted 2011.

[20] Rim PB, Runt JP, Macromolecules., 16, 762 (1983)