Tailoring the Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Property of Poly(glycolic acid) by Self-nucleation

Jia-Xuan Li; De-Yu Niu; Peng-Wu Xu; Zhao-Yang Sun; Wei-Jun Yang; Yang Ji; Pi-Ming Ma

doi:10.1007/s10118-022-2671-y

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Tailoring the Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Property of Poly(glycolic acid) by Self-nucleation

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2022-03-28

- Tailoring the Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Property of Poly(glycolic acid) by Self-nucleation
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 40, Issue 4, Pages: 365-372(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
  b.Inner Mongolia Pujing Polymer Material Technology Corporation Ltd., Baotou 014060, China
- Author bio：
  
  pengwuxu@jiangnan.edu.cn (P.W.X.)
  p.ma@jiangnan.edu.cn (P.M.M.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2671-y
  CLC：
- Received：07 October 2021，
  
  Revised：2021-11-5，
  
  Accepted：23 November 2021，
  
  Online First：20 January 2022，
  
  Published：01 April 2022
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Li, J. X.; Niu, D. Y.; Xu, P. W.; Sun, Z. Y.; Yang, W. J.; Ji, Y.; Ma, P. M. Tailoring the crystallization behavior and mechanical property of poly(glycolic acid) by self-nucleation. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 365–372

Jia-Xuan Li, De-Yu Niu, Peng-Wu Xu, et al. Tailoring the Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Property of Poly(glycolic acid) by Self-nucleation[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(4): 365-372.
Li, J. X.; Niu, D. Y.; Xu, P. W.; Sun, Z. Y.; Yang, W. J.; Ji, Y.; Ma, P. M. Tailoring the crystallization behavior and mechanical property of poly(glycolic acid) by self-nucleation. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 365–372 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2671-y.

Jia-Xuan Li, De-Yu Niu, Peng-Wu Xu, et al. Tailoring the Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Property of Poly(glycolic acid) by Self-nucleation[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(4): 365-372. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2671-y.

摘要

Abstract

Biocompostable poly(glycolic acid) (PGA) crystallizes slowly under fast cooling condition

leading to poor mechanical performance of the final products. In this work

a self-nucleation (SN) route was carried out to promote the crystallization of PGA by regulating only the thermal procedure without any extra nucleating agents. When self-nucleation temperature (

) decreased from 250 °C to 227 °C

the nuclei density was increased

and the non-isothermal crystallization temperature (

) of PGA was increased from 156 °C to 197 °C and the half-life time (

0.5

) of isothermal crystallization at 207 °C was decreased by 89%. Consequently

the tensile strength and the elongation at break of the PGA were increased by 12% and 189%

respectively. According to the change of

as a function of

a three-stage temperature domain map (Domain I

II and III) was protracted and the viscoelastic behavior of the self-nucleation melt and the homogeneous melt was studied. The results indicated that interaction among PGA chains was remained in Domain IIb

which can act as pre-ordered structure to accelerate the overall crystallization rate. This work utilizes a simple and effective SN method to regulate the crystallization behavior and the mechanical properties of PGA

which may broaden the application range of resulting materials.

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