Melt/solid polycondensation of l-lactic acid: an alternative route to poly(l-lactic acid) with high molecular weight

By Sung‐Il Moon, C. Lee, I. Taniguchi, M. Miyamoto, Y. Kimura. 2001

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Process Chemistry and Technology

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In Biomaterials

1. M. Kakuta
2. Masayuki Hirata
3. Vimal Kumar
4. Y. Kimura
5. A. Gupta
6. P. Gentile
7. V. Chiono

In Process Chemistry and Technology

1. M. Kakuta
2. Masayuki Hirata
3. Y. Kimura

Citations in the corpus

• An Overview of Poly(lactic-co-glycolic) Acid (PLGA)-Based Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering (2014, background): “In 2001, Moon and Takahashi developed a new melt and melt/solid polycondensation process, without any azeotropical solvents, to overcome these drawbacks [21,22].”
• New emerging trends in synthetic biodegradable polymers – Polylactide: A critique (2007, background): “This process involves heating a semi-crystalline, solid prepolymer (of relatively low molecular weight) in powder, pellet, chip or fibre form up to a temperature below the melting temperature with the simultaneous removal of by-products from the surface of the material either (by volatilising) under”
• Stereoblock Polylactides as High-Performance Bio-Based Polymers (2009, methodology): “99 , 100 , 101 A similar approach has effectively been adopted for synthesizing multiblock sb-PLA whose molecular weight is much higher compared to that prepared by the above-mentioned stereoselective ROP route.”