Extensional Stress-Induced Orientation and Crystallization can Regulate the Balance of Toughness and Stiffness of Polylactide Films: Interplay of Oriented Amorphous Chains and Crystallites

By Xin-Rui Gao, Yue Li, Hua‐Dong Huang, Jia-zhuang Xu, Ling Xu, Xu Ji, G. Zhong, Zhong‐Ming Li. Macromolecules, 2019

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Polylactide (PLA) films with an excellent balance of toughness and stiffness were realized by extensional stress efficiently. For the relatively low extensional stress, gauche–gauche conformers tha...

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics

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