Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides

A racemic mixture of two stereoregular polylactides (PLAs) (i.e. PLLA and PDLA) allows obtaining wholly amorphous stereocomplex PLA films by solvent casting method. The amorphous phase behavior of stereocomplex PLA is compared with that of PLLA and PDLA by advanced thermal analysis, such as Fast Sca...

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Main Authors: N. Varol, X. Monnier, L. Delbreilh, A. Saiter, K. Fatyeyeva, E. Dargent
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Published: Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2020-01-01
Series:eXPRESS Polymer Letters
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Online Access:http://www.expresspolymlett.com/letolt.php?file=EPL-0010112&mi=cd
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author N. Varol
X. Monnier
L. Delbreilh
A. Saiter
K. Fatyeyeva
E. Dargent
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description A racemic mixture of two stereoregular polylactides (PLAs) (i.e. PLLA and PDLA) allows obtaining wholly amorphous stereocomplex PLA films by solvent casting method. The amorphous phase behavior of stereocomplex PLA is compared with that of PLLA and PDLA by advanced thermal analysis, such as Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC) and Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy (DRS). FSC allows us to quench at very high cooling rate (up to 4000 K・s–1) the studied polymers and to obtain glassy amorphous phases with high excess of enthalpy. It is shown that stereocomplexation has no influence on the glass transition temperature, the physical aging and on the cooperativity. The α and β processes were examined to study the dielectric properties, such as relaxation time, dielectric strength, and fragility. The results of FSC and DRS are correlated to determine the values of cooperativity length which are found to be similar in a wide temperature range. It is found that the studied polymers have the similar dielectric properties independently on their tacticity.
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spelling doaj-art-5415ae853ff84ea0974a56a7e66bdf8c2025-08-20T03:56:12ZengBudapest University of Technology and EconomicseXPRESS Polymer Letters1788-618X2020-01-01141486210.3144/expresspolymlett.2020.5Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactidesN. VarolX. MonnierL. DelbreilhA. SaiterK. FatyeyevaE. DargentA racemic mixture of two stereoregular polylactides (PLAs) (i.e. PLLA and PDLA) allows obtaining wholly amorphous stereocomplex PLA films by solvent casting method. The amorphous phase behavior of stereocomplex PLA is compared with that of PLLA and PDLA by advanced thermal analysis, such as Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC) and Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy (DRS). FSC allows us to quench at very high cooling rate (up to 4000 K・s–1) the studied polymers and to obtain glassy amorphous phases with high excess of enthalpy. It is shown that stereocomplexation has no influence on the glass transition temperature, the physical aging and on the cooperativity. The α and β processes were examined to study the dielectric properties, such as relaxation time, dielectric strength, and fragility. The results of FSC and DRS are correlated to determine the values of cooperativity length which are found to be similar in a wide temperature range. It is found that the studied polymers have the similar dielectric properties independently on their tacticity.http://www.expresspolymlett.com/letolt.php?file=EPL-0010112&mi=cdbiopolymers, biocompositesthermal propertiespolylactic acidamorphous phasestereocomplex polymer
spellingShingle N. Varol
X. Monnier
L. Delbreilh
A. Saiter
K. Fatyeyeva
E. Dargent
Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
eXPRESS Polymer Letters
biopolymers, biocomposites
thermal properties
polylactic acid
amorphous phase
stereocomplex polymer
title Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
title_full Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
title_fullStr Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
title_full_unstemmed Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
title_short Highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
title_sort highlight of primary and secondary relaxations in amorphous stereocomplex polylactides
topic biopolymers, biocomposites
thermal properties
polylactic acid
amorphous phase
stereocomplex polymer
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