Kinetics of the hydrolytic degradation of poly(lactic acid)

By Fabio Codari, S. Lazzari, M. Šoóš, Giuseppe Storti, M. Morbidelli, D. Moscatelli. 2012

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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Citations in the corpus

• The Chemical Recycling of PLA: A Review (2020, background): “Under acidic conditions, the PLA hydrolysis has been shown to be dominated by a chain-end scission, whereby the terminal hydroxyl group is activated by protonation and is hydrolysed directly to lactic acid [84,87,88].”
• Accelerated ageing of polylactide in aqueous environments: Comparative study between distilled water and seawater (2014, background): “Very few published values are available but E a has been found to range from 40 to 80 kJ/mol [35].”
• Lifetime prediction of biodegradable polymers (2017, background): “mechanical properties, studies were made of the water-soluble oligomers of PLA [163] with between 2 and 9 repeat units, hydrolysed at pH 2.”