Journal article
Moisture sorption, transport, and hydrolytic degradation in polylactide
Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, v 131(1-3), p774
Mar 2006
PMID: 18563653
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Abstract
Management of moisture penetration and hydrolytic degradation of polylactide (PLA) is extremely important during the manufacturing, shipping, storage, and end-use of PLA products. Moisture transport, crystallization, and degradation, in PLA have been measured through a variety of experimental techniques including size-exclusion chromatography, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction. Quartz crystal microbalance and dynamic vapor sorption experiments have also been used to measure moisture sorption isotherms in PLA films with varying crystallinity. A surprising result is that, within the accuracy of the experiments, crystalline and amorphous PLA films exhibit identical sorption isotherms.
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- Title
- Moisture sorption, transport, and hydrolytic degradation in polylactide
- Creators
- Richard A Cairncross - Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. cairncross@drexel.eduJeffrey G BeckerShri RamaswamyRyan O'Connor
- Publication Details
- Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, v 131(1-3), p774
- Publisher
- United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000203005000013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33646883500
- Other Identifier
- 991014877793104721
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