Kontárová Soňa, Přikryl Radek, Melčová Veronika, Menčík Přemysl, Horálek Matyáš, Figalla Silvestr, Plavec Roderik, Feranc Jozef, Sadílek Jiří, Pospíšilová Aneta
Institute of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 464/118, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
Institute of Natural and Synthetic Polymers, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Materials (Basel). 2020 Oct 23;13(21):4736. doi: 10.3390/ma13214736.
This paper investigates the effect of plasticizer structure on especially the printability and mechanical and thermal properties of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)-poly(lactic acid)-plasticizer biodegradable blends. Three plasticizers, acetyl tris(2-ethylhexyl) citrate, tris(2-ethylhexyl) citrate, and poly(ethylene glycol)bis(2-ethylhexanoate), were first checked whether they were miscible with poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)-poly(lactic acid) (PHB-PLA) blends using a kneading machine. PHB-PLA-plasticizer blends of 60-25-15 (wt.%) were then prepared using a corotating meshing twin-screw extruder, and a single screw extruder was used for filament preparation for further three-dimensional (3D) fused deposition modeling (FDM) printing. These innovative eco-friendly PHB-PLA-plasticizer blends were created with a majority of PHB, and therefore, poor mechanical properties and thermal properties of neat PHB-PLA blends were improved by adding appropriate plasticizer. The plasticizer also influences the printability of blends, which was investigated, based on our new specific printability tests developed for the optimization of printing conditions (especially printing temperature). Three-dimensional printed test samples were used for heat deflection temperature measurements and Charpy and tensile-impact tests. Plasticizer migration was also investigated. The macrostructure of 3D printed samples was observed using an optical microscope to check the printing quality and printing conditions. Tensile tests of 3D printed samples (dogbones), as well as extruded filaments, showed that measured elongation at break raised, from 21% for non-plasticized PHB-PLA reference blends to 84% for some plasticized blends in the form of filaments and from 10% (reference) to 32% for plasticized blends in the form of printed dogbones. Measurements of thermal properties (using modulated differential scanning calorimetry and oscillation rheometry) also confirmed the plasticizing effect on blends. The thermal and mechanical properties of PHB-PLA blends were improved by the addition of appropriate plasticizer. In contrast, the printability of the PHB-PLA reference seems to be slightly better than the printability of the plasticized blends.
本文研究了增塑剂结构对聚(3-羟基丁酸酯)-聚(乳酸)-增塑剂生物可降解共混物的可印刷性、力学性能和热性能的影响。首先使用捏合机检查了三种增塑剂,即乙酰基三(2-乙基己基)柠檬酸酯、三(2-乙基己基)柠檬酸酯和聚(乙二醇)双(2-乙基己酸酯)是否与聚(3-羟基丁酸酯)-聚(乳酸)(PHB-PLA)共混物互溶。然后使用同向啮合双螺杆挤出机制备了60-25-15(重量%)的PHB-PLA-增塑剂共混物,并使用单螺杆挤出机制备长丝,用于进一步的三维(3D)熔融沉积建模(FDM)打印。这些创新的环保型PHB-PLA-增塑剂共混物以PHB为主制成,因此,通过添加合适的增塑剂改善了纯PHB-PLA共混物较差的力学性能和热性能。增塑剂还影响共混物的可印刷性,基于我们为优化印刷条件(特别是印刷温度)开发的新的特定可印刷性测试对此进行了研究。三维打印的测试样品用于热变形温度测量以及夏比冲击试验和拉伸冲击试验。还研究了增塑剂迁移。使用光学显微镜观察三维打印样品的宏观结构,以检查印刷质量和印刷条件。三维打印样品(哑铃形)以及挤出长丝的拉伸试验表明,测得的断裂伸长率提高了,从未增塑的PHB-PLA参比共混物的21%提高到某些丝状增塑共混物的84%,从参比共混物的10%提高到印刷哑铃形增塑共混物的32%。热性能测量(使用调制差示扫描量热法和振荡流变学)也证实了对共混物的增塑作用。通过添加合适的增塑剂改善了PHB-PLA共混物的热性能和力学性能。相比之下,PHB-PLA参比共混物的可印刷性似乎略优于增塑共混物的可印刷性。