Strong, Resilient, and Sustainable Aliphatic Polyester Thermoplastic Elastomers

Watts, Annabelle; Kurokawa, Naruki; Hillmyer, Marc A.

doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00283

Title: Strong, Resilient, and Sustainable Aliphatic Polyester Thermoplastic Elastomers

Journal Article · Wed May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Biomacromolecules

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00283· OSTI ID:1373778

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Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Keio Univ., Yokohama (Japan)

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) composed of ABA block polymers exhibit a wide variety of properties and are easily processable as they contain physical, rather than chemical, cross-links. Poly(γ-methyl-ε-caprolactone) (PγMCL) is an amorphous polymer with a low entanglement molar mass (M_e = 2.9 kg mol^–1), making it a suitable choice for tough elastomers. Incorporating PγMCL as the midblock with polylactide (PLA) end blocks (f_LA = 0.17) results in TPEs with high stresses and elongations at break (σ_B = 24 ± 2 MPa and ε_B = 1029 ± 20%, respectively) and low levels of hysteresis. The use of isotactic PLA as the end blocks (f_LLA = 0.17) increases the strength and toughness of the material (σ_B = 30 ± 4 MPa, ε_B = 988 ± 30%) due to its semicrystalline nature. This study aims to demonstrate how the outstanding properties in these sustainable materials are a result of the entanglements, glass transition temperature, segment–segment interaction parameter, and crystallinity, resulting in comparable properties to the commercially relevant styrene-based TPEs.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; 0960140

OSTI ID:: 1373778

Journal Information:: Biomacromolecules, Vol. 18, Issue 6; ISSN 1525-7797

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