1. Synthesis, characterization and stereocomplexation of polyamide 11/polylactide diblock copolymers.
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Gardella, Lorenza, Mincheva, Rosica, De Winter, Julien, Tachibana, Yuya, Raquez, Jean-Marie, Dubois, Philippe, and Monticelli, Orietta
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CHEMICAL synthesis , *POLYAMIDES , *POLYLACTIC acid , *DIBLOCK copolymers , *RING-opening polymerization - Abstract
The present work deals with the building of novel, fully bio-based polyamide 11 (PA11)/polylactide (PLA) diblock copolymers (PA11 x PLA y ). The adopted two-step synthetic strategy involves first the preparation of an amino-terminated PA11 prepolymer ( i.e. , having the amino end-group available and the carboxylic one protected), to be employed subsequently as a macro-initiator in the ring-opening polymerization of d -lactide (or l -lactide). Upon tuning the lactide conversion, diblock copolymers with different PA11/PLA ratios are targeted and achieved, as demonstrated by 1 H NMR and TGA analysis. The thermal properties of these double-crystalline polymers are characterized by means of DSC. Finally, fast stereocomplexation is demonstrated upon mixing the enantiomeric PA11 x PLA y diblock pairs. Indeed, the idea behind these systems is to conjugate the properties of PLA with those of the high-performance PA11, in a cumulative rather than intermediate fashion, as for widely reported random poly(ester amide)s, but without phase separation occurring, which is the case for PLA/PA11 immiscible blends. In addition, the presence of the stereocomplex, well-known for its improved chemical/thermal resistance over PLA homopolymer, could impart even further quality to the final materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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