Improvement on the Mechanical Performance and Resistance Towards Hydrolysis of Poly(glycolic acid) <italic style="font-style: italic">via</italic> Solid-state Drawing

Jia-Xuan Li; De-Yu Niu; Bo Liu; Peng-Wu Xu; Wei-Jun Yang; Pieter Jan Lemstra; Pi-Ming Ma

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Improvement on the Mechanical Performance and Resistance Towards Hydrolysis of Poly(glycolic acid) via Solid-state Drawing

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2022-12-19

- Improvement on the Mechanical Performance and Resistance Towards Hydrolysis of Poly(glycolic acid) via Solid-state Drawing
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 41, Issue 1, Pages: 14-23(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
  b.PlemPolco B.V., Roek 24, 5508 KE Veldhoven, the Netherlands
- Author bio：
  
  p.ma@jiangnan.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2760-y
  CLC：
- Received：18 March 2022，
  
  Revised：2022-4-3，
  
  Accepted：18 April 2022，
  
  Online First：20 July 2022，
  
  Published：01 January 2023
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Li, J. X.; Niu, D. Y.; Liu, B.; Xu, P. W.; Yang, W. J.; Lemstra, P. J.; Ma, P. M. Improvement on the mechanical performance and resistance towards hydrolysis of poly(glycolic acid) via solid-state drawing. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 14–23

Jia-Xuan Li, De-Yu Niu, Bo Liu, et al. Improvement on the Mechanical Performance and Resistance Towards Hydrolysis of Poly(glycolic acid) via Solid-state Drawing[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(1): 14-23. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-022-2760-y.
Li, J. X.; Niu, D. Y.; Liu, B.; Xu, P. W.; Yang, W. J.; Lemstra, P. J.; Ma, P. M. Improvement on the mechanical performance and resistance towards hydrolysis of poly(glycolic acid) via solid-state drawing. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 14–23 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2760-y.

Jia-Xuan Li, De-Yu Niu, Bo Liu, et al. Improvement on the Mechanical Performance and Resistance Towards Hydrolysis of Poly(glycolic acid) via Solid-state Drawing[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(1): 14-23. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-022-2760-y. DOI：

摘要

In this work

a solid-state drawing process after melt extrusion was carried out on poly(glycolic acid) (PGA) to form oriented crystal structures and tightly arranged rigid amorphous fraction which strongly improved the mechanical properties and the resistance to hydrolysis of PGA.

Abstract

Poly(glycolic acid) is a biocompatible as well as biocomposable polymer with superior mechanical and barrier properties and

consequently

has found important applications in both medical and packaging fields. However

the high hydrolysis rate in a high humidity environment restricts its application. In this work

a solid-state drawing process after melt extrusion is applied in order to produce fibrous PGA with enhanced mechanical properties and a much better resistance towards hydrolysis. The crystal structure of PGA gradually transformed from spherulites into oriented fibrous crystals in the stretching direction upon solid-state drawing. Meanwhile

both the length of microfibril and the size of lamellae increased initially with the drawing ratio (DR)

while the chain-folded lamellae transformed into extended-chain fibrils at high(er) DR. The oriented structures lead to an overall improvement of the mechanical properties of PGA

e.g.

the tensile strength increased from 62.0±1.4 MPa to 910±54 MPa and the elongation at break increased from around 7% to 50%. Meanwhile

the heat capacity of totally mobile amorphous PGA (Δ

=0.64 J∙g

−1

∙°C

−1

) was reported for the first time

which was used to analyze the content of mobile amorphous fraction (

MAF

) and rigid amorphous fraction (

RAF

). Both the oriented chain-folded lamellae crystals and the tightly arranged RAF are beneficial to prevent water molecules from penetrating the matrix

thus improving the resistance towards hydrolysis. As a consequence

the fibrous PGA with a DR of 5 showed a tensile strength retention rate of 17.3% higher in comparison with the undrawn sample after 7-days accelerated hydrolysis. Therefore

this work provides a feasible method to improve the mechanical and resistance towards hydrolysis performance of PGA

which may broaden its application and prolong the shelf-life of PGA products.

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Improvement on the Mechanical Performance and Resistance Towards Hydrolysis of Poly(glycolic acid) via Solid-state Drawing

DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2760-y

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