聚乳酸
材料科学
环氧树脂
复合材料
极限抗拉强度
热塑性塑料
聚合物
韧性
作者
Pingwei Zhu,Siqi Liu,Rui Feng,Lei Yang,Li Liu,Yudong Huang,Jun Li
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.compscitech.2022.109888
摘要
Polylactic acid (PLA), as a biodegradable thermoplastic resin, has received extensive research and attention. However, PLA exhibits severe brittleness at room temperature, which will greatly limit its practical engineering application. Herein, five kinds of epoxy microspheres (EPs, 0.07–20 μm) with high surface reactivity were synthesized by the double emulsion method for toughening and reinforcing PLA. It is found that EPs efficiently improve the toughness of films while maintaining the high tensile strength and modulus. At only 0.5 wt% EPs, the elongation at break of PLA is increased to 19.5%, which is 4.9 times that of pure PLA. The efficient improvement in toughness is attributed to the reaction between surface epoxy groups of EPs and O–H of PLA. Toughening mechanisms mainly involve stress concentration, debonding cavitation, crazing growth and shear yielding plastic deformation. Meanwhile, due to the high rigidity of EPs, the tensile strength and modulus of PLA/0.5% 300 nm EPs film are 15.1% and 7.3% higher than that of pure PLA, respectively. This work exhibits a potential and promising application in toughening and reinforcing PLA.
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