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Improve the thermal and mechanical properties of poly(L-lactide) by forming nanocomposites with pristine vermiculite

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Poly(L-lactide) (PLLA)/pristine vermiculite nanocomposites were prepared by melt blending in a twin-screw extruder, and the detailed information of vermiculite dispersion state and effect of vermiculite on thermal and mechanical properties were systematically studied. The results show that the dispersion of vermiculite in the matrix is quite well when the loading content does not exceed 3 wt%. Pristine vermiculite can obviously improve the melt-crystallization temperature during the nonisothermal crystallization. Both crystallization time span and spherulitic size of PLLA decrease with the increasing amount of vermiculite under isothermal crystallization condition by enhancing the primary nucleation of PLLA. And the adding vermiculite can also improve the tensile modulus and Izod impact strength of PLLA. The intrinsic mechanism for the nucleating effect of vermiculite on PLLA is proposed to be the epitaxial crystallization and specific interaction between vermiculite and PLLA.

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    Hai-mu Ye  (叶海木), Kai Hou & Qiong Zhou

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21304108) and the Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum-Beijing (No. YJRC-2013-14, 2462013BJRC001).

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Ye, Hm., Hou, K. & Zhou, Q. Improve the thermal and mechanical properties of poly(L-lactide) by forming nanocomposites with pristine vermiculite. Chin J Polym Sci 34, 1–12 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-016-1724-5

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