• 文献标题:   Non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of poly (lactic acid)/graphene nanocomposites
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN YH, YAO XY, GU Q, PAN ZJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, kinetic, nanocomposite, nonisothermal crystallization, poly lactic acid
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF POLYMER ENGINEERING
  • ISSN:   0334-6447
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1515/polyeng-2012-0124
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA)/graphene nanocomposites were prepared by solution blending and the dispersibility of graphene in the PLA matrix was examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The non-isothermal crystallization behaviors of pure PLA and PLA/graphene nanocomposites from the melt were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results showed that the graphene could play a role as a heterogeneous nucleating agent during the non-isothermal crystallizing process of PLA, and accelerate the crystallization rate. The non-isothermal crystallizing data were analyzed with the Avrami, Ozawa and Mo et al. models and the crystallization parameters of the samples were obtained. It is demonstrated that the combination of the Avrami and Ozawa models developed by Mo et al. was successful in describing the non-isothermal crystallization process for pure PLA and its nanocomposite. According to the Kissinger equation, the activation energies were found to be -154.3 and -179.5 kJ/mol for pure PLA and PLA/0.1 wt% graphene nanocomposite, respectively. Furthermore, the spherulite growth behavior was investigated by polarized optical microscopy (POM) and the results also supported the DSC data.