Yes / The “sliding graft copolymer” (SGC), in which many linear poly-ε-caprolactone (PCL) side chains are bound to cyclodextrin rings of a polyrotaxane (PR), was prepared and employed to toughen brittle polylactide (PLA) with methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) by reactive blending. The SGC was in situ crosslinked and therefore transformed from a crystallized plastic into a totally amorphous elastomer during reactive blending. Meanwhile, PLA-co-SGC copolymer was formed at interface to greatly improve the compatibility between PLA and SGC, and the chain extension of PLA also occurred, were confirmed by FTIR, GPC, SEM, and TEM. The resulting PLA/SGC/MDI blends displayed super impact toughness, elongation at break and nice biocompatibility. It was inferred from these results the crosslinked SGC (c-SGC) elastomeric particles with sliding crosslinking points performed as stress concentrators and absorbed considerable energy under impact and tension process. / This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50933001, 51221002 and 51320105012).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/8026 |
| Date | 15 June 2014 |
| Creators | Li, X., Kang, H., Shen, J., Zhang, L., Nishi, T., Ito, K., Zhao, C., Coates, Philip D. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted Manuscript |
| Rights | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . |
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