Enhancing the Crystallization Performance of Poly(L-lactide) by Intramolecular Hybridizing with Tunable Self-assembly-type Oxalamide Segments

Man-Man Yu; Wei-Jun Yang; De-Yu Niu; Xiao-Xia Cai; Yun-Xuan Weng; Wei-Fu Dong; Ming-Qing Chen; Peng-Wu Xu; Yang Wang; Hong Chu; Pi-Ming Ma

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Enhancing the Crystallization Performance of Poly(L-lactide) by Intramolecular Hybridizing with Tunable Self-assembly-type Oxalamide Segments

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- Enhancing the Crystallization Performance of Poly(L-lactide) by Intramolecular Hybridizing with Tunable Self-assembly-type Oxalamide Segments
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 39, Issue 1, Pages: 122-132(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
  b.Beijing Key Laboratory of Quality Evaluation Technology for Hygiene and Safety of Plastics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
- Author bio：
  
  wyxuan@th.btbu.edu.cn (Y.X.W.)
  p.ma@jiangnan.edu.cn (P.M.M.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-020-2461-3
  CLC：
- Received：20 April 2020，
  
  Revised：2020-5-20，
  
  Accepted：22 May 2020，
  
  Online First：17 August 2020，
  
  Published：01 January 2021
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Yu, M. M.; Yang, W. J.; Niu, D. Y.; Cai, X. X.; Weng, Y. X.; Dong, W. F.; Chen, M. Q.; Xu, P. W.; Wang, Y.; Chu, H.; Ma, P. M. Enhancing the crystallization performance of poly(L-lactide) by intramolecular hybridizing with tunable self-assembly-type oxalamide segments. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 122–132

Man-Man Yu, Wei-Jun Yang, De-Yu Niu, et al. Enhancing the Crystallization Performance of Poly(L-lactide) by Intramolecular Hybridizing with Tunable Self-assembly-type Oxalamide Segments[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(1): 122-132.
Yu, M. M.; Yang, W. J.; Niu, D. Y.; Cai, X. X.; Weng, Y. X.; Dong, W. F.; Chen, M. Q.; Xu, P. W.; Wang, Y.; Chu, H.; Ma, P. M. Enhancing the crystallization performance of poly(L-lactide) by intramolecular hybridizing with tunable self-assembly-type oxalamide segments. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 122–132 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2461-3.

Man-Man Yu, Wei-Jun Yang, De-Yu Niu, et al. Enhancing the Crystallization Performance of Poly(L-lactide) by Intramolecular Hybridizing with Tunable Self-assembly-type Oxalamide Segments[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(1): 122-132. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2461-3.

摘要

Abstract

In this work

hydroxyl-terminated oxalamide compounds

-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)oxalamide (OXA1) and

′

-(ethane-1

2-diyl)bis(

-(2-hydroxyethyl)oxalamide (OXA2) were synthesized to initiate the ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide for preparation of oxalamide-hybridized poly(L-lactide) (PLA

OXA

)

i.e.

PLA

OXA1

and PLA

OXA2

. The crystallization properties of PLA were improved by the self-assembly of the oxalamide segments in PLA

OXA

which served as the initial heterogeneous nuclei. The crystal growth kinetics was studied by Hoffman-Lauritzen theory and it revealed that the nucleation energy barrier of PLA

OXA1

and PLA

OXA2

was lower than that of PLA. Consequently

PLA

OXA

could crystallize much faster than PLA

accompanied with a decrease in spherulite size and half-life crystallization time by 74.8% and 86.5% (

=125 °C)

respectively. In addition

the final crystallinity of PLA

OXA1

and PLA

OXA2

was 6 and 8 times higher

respectively

in comparison with that of neat PLA under a controlled cooling rate of 10 °C/min. The results demonstrate that the hybridization of oxalamide segments in PLA backbone will serve as the self-heteronucleation for promoting the crystallization rate. The higher the content of oxalamide segments (PLA

OXA2

compared with PLA

OXA1

) is

the stronger the promotion effect will be. Therefore

this study may provide a universal approach by hybridizing macromolecular structure to facilitate the crystallization of semi-crystalline polymer materials.

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