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A study on ZnO nanoparticles catalyzed ring opening polymerization of L-lactide

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Facile synthesis of multifunctional organic/inorganic materials is gaining importance. Present study deals with single step synthesis of PLLA/ZnO nanocomposite by ZnO nanoparticles catalyzed ring opening polymerization of L-lactide. The PLLA/ZnO nanocomposites with different ZnO concentrations were prepared and characterized by FT-IR, XRD, TEM, SEM, DSC, TGA, GPC, 13C NMR and 1H NMR etc. Uniform dispersion of ZnO nanoparticles of size 2–10 nm was achieved without any surface modification of the nanoparticles. The results showed that the as-synthesized PLLA/ZnO nanocomposites possessed thermal properties different from PLLA/ZnO nanocomposites synthesized by other techniques. The synthesized nanocomposite also showed excellent photochemical properties which were analyzed by studying decomposition of methylene blue dye.

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Acknowledgments

We greatly acknowledge Saurashtra University for 13C NMR and TGA, SICART for GPC and SAIF, Chandigarh for 1H NMR and TEM. One of the authors is grateful to University Grants commission (UGC), New Delhi for MANF to carry out this work.

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    Harjinder Kaur, Anuradha Rathore & Shinu Raju

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Kaur, H., Rathore, A. & Raju, S. A study on ZnO nanoparticles catalyzed ring opening polymerization of L-lactide. J Polym Res 21, 537 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-014-0537-x

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