@inproceedings{c533f135cacf42e6984448872a07d178,
title = "The dependency of polylactide crystallization behavior on the chain branching and nano-clay contents",
abstract = "The crystallization behavior of Polylactide with different chain extenders and nano-clay contents were investigated using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The results of As Received PLAs show that the branched structure plays the role of crystal nucleating agent. Also, the compounding process on the branched PLAs improves the crystallinity significantly due to the completion of branching reactions. The results of PLA-nanoclay show that the addition of nanoclay in different loadings does not have a significant effect on melt crystallization of half and fully branched PLAs compared with processed branched PLAs, but improve the crystallinity of linear PLA during isothermal crystallization.",
keywords = "Chain extender, Melting crystallization, Nanoclay, Polylactide",
author = "M. Nofar and W. Zhu and Park, {C. B.} and J. Randall",
year = "2011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781617829604",
series = "Annual Technical Conference - ANTEC, Conference Proceedings",
pages = "236--240",
booktitle = "69th Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers 2011, ANTEC 2011",
note = "69th Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers 2011, ANTEC 2011 ; Conference date: 01-05-2011 Through 05-05-2011",
}