Nofar Mohammadreza, Salehiyan Reza, Barletta Massimiliano
Sustainable & Green Plastics Laboratory, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul 34469, Turkey.
School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK.
Polymers (Basel). 2024 Jun 14;16(12):1699. doi: 10.3390/polym16121699.
While the brittle polylactide (PLA) has a high durability among bioplastics, poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) with certain ductility exhibits facile compostability. The addition of polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) may also be used to improve the ductility and toughness of brittle bioplastics. Binary and ternary blends of PLA/PBAT/PHBH based on either PLA or PHBH as the matrix have been manufactured using a twin-screw extruder. The melt rheological, mechanical, and morphological properties of the processed samples were examined. Binary blends of PLA/PHBH show superior strength, with the PLA75/PHBH25 blend exhibiting a tensile strength of 35.2 ± 3.0 MPa, which may be attributed to miscible-like morphology. In contrast, blends of PLA with PBAT demonstrate low strength, with the PLA50/PBAT50 blend exhibits a tensile strength of 9.5 ± 2.0 MPa due to the presence of large droplets in the matrix. PBAT-containing blends exhibit lower impact strengths compared to PHBH-containing blends. For instance, a PLA75/PBAT25 blend displays an impact strength of 1.76 ± 0.1 kJ/m, whereas the PHBH75/PBAT25 blend displays an impact strength of 2.61 ± 0.3 kJ/m, which may be attributed to uniformly dispersed PBAT droplets.
虽然脆性聚乳酸(PLA)在生物塑料中具有较高的耐久性,但具有一定延展性的聚(3-羟基丁酸酯-co-3-羟基己酸酯)(PHBH)具有易于堆肥的特性。添加聚己二酸丁二醇酯对苯二甲酸酯(PBAT)也可用于提高脆性生物塑料的延展性和韧性。以PLA或PHBH为基体的PLA/PBAT/PHBH二元和三元共混物已通过双螺杆挤出机制备。对加工样品的熔体流变性能、力学性能和形态性能进行了研究。PLA/PHBH二元共混物表现出优异的强度,PLA75/PHBH25共混物的拉伸强度为35.2±3.0MPa,这可能归因于类似可混溶的形态。相比之下,PLA与PBAT的共混物强度较低,PLA50/PBAT50共混物的拉伸强度为9.5±2.0MPa,这是由于基体中存在大液滴。与含PHBH的共混物相比,含PBAT的共混物冲击强度较低。例如,PLA75/PBAT25共混物的冲击强度为1.76±0.1kJ/m,而PHBH75/PBAT25共混物的冲击强度为2.61±0.3kJ/m,这可能归因于PBAT液滴均匀分散。