Highly toughened polylactide with novel sliding graft copolymer by in situ reactive compatibilization, crosslinking and chain extension
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bradford
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 32
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.polymer.2014.06.045
- Title of journal
- Polymer
- Article number
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- First page
- 4313
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 16
- ISSN
- 0032-3861
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032386114005394?via%3Dihub
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Internationally cooperative research with leading Chinese (Zhang, BUCT) and Japanese academics (Nishi, University of Tokyo), using reactive processing - for which we have long-standing expertise - to produce entirely amorphous graft copolymer to toughen – up to 20-fold impact strength - brittle polylactides used in many biomedical applications. Importantly these retain biodegradability. A novel 3-d supramolecular network is formed, in which crosslinks slide on molecular backbone chains to their optimum points, allowing full tension of the chains. This arose from our EPSRC Science Bridges China programme and helped lead to our Joint International Laboratory for Soft Materials Technology with BUCT.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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