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Mechanical properties and higher-order structures of biaxially drawn bacterial poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyhexanote] films
- Source :
- Macromolecular Research. 20:37-43
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- Bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) biaxially oriented films were prepared by combination of the roll and biaxial drawing processes. Compression molded films, which consisted of large spherulite aggregation, were roll drawn up to ×1.4 and further biaxially drawn up to 3.0×3.0. The tensile modulus and the break elongation decreased while the tensile strength increased as the biaxial draw ratio increased. Biaxially drawn films showed two kinds of structures: one in which the c-axis was almost perpendicular to the film surface and the other in which the c-axis was at an incline compared to the normal film surface. The correlation among the processing conditions, higher-order structures, and mechanical properties was investigated using wide-angle X-ray diffraction, small-angle X-ray scattering, and tensile measurements. Open image in new window
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Polymers and Plastics
Scattering
General Chemical Engineering
Organic Chemistry
Young's modulus
Spherulite (polymer physics)
Compression (physics)
Polymer engineering
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Ultimate tensile strength
Materials Chemistry
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Perpendicular
Composite material
Elongation
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- ISSN :
- 20927673 and 15985032
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Macromolecular Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9587cc8cf855f07b66b14cb70d5931d7