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Poly (lactic acid) blends: Processing, properties and applications
Abstract
Poly (lactic acid) or polylactide (PLA) is a commercial biobased, biodegradable, biocompatible, compostable and non-toxic polymer that has competitive material and processing costs and desirable mechanical properties. Thereby, it can be considered favorably for biomedical applications and as the most promising substitute for petroleum-based polymers in a wide range of commodity and engineering applications. However, PLA has some significant shortcomings such as low melt strength, slow crystallization rate, poor processability, high brittleness, low toughness, and low service temperature, which limit its applications. To overcome these limitations, blending PLA with other polymers is an inexpensive approach that could also tailor the final properties of PLA-based products. During the last two decades, researchers investigated the synthesis, processing, properties, and development of various PLA-based blend systems including miscible blends of poly l-lactide (PLLA) and poly d-lactide (PDLA), which generate stereocomplex crystals, binary immiscible/miscible blends of PLA with other thermoplastics, multifunctional ternary blends using a third polymer or fillers such as nanoparticles, as well as PLA-based blend foam systems. This article reviews all these investigations and compares the syntheses/processing-morphology-properties interrelationships in PLA-based blends developed so far for various applications.
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“PBAT is an aliphatic-aromatic copolyester [2,3], which is biodegradable, highly flexible and designed for film extrusion [4,5].”
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“However, PLA suffers from its brittleness and low toughness at ambient conditions [4], due to its molecular structure with a relatively rigid backbone and small methyl side groups.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nofar, M., Sacligil, D., Carreau, P. J., Kamal, M. R., & Heuzey, M.-C.
- Affiliations
- Istanbul Technical University (TR)
- Research Center for High Performance Polymer and Composite Systems (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Nofar, Mohammadreza
- Venue
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-03
- Volume
- 125
- Pages
- 307-360
- ISSN
- 0141-8130 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2904736796
- Cited by
- 780
- References
- 732
- Citations by year
- 2026: 69 · 2025: 94 · 2024: 123 · 2023: 149 · 2022: 95 · 2021: 120 · 2020: 98 · 2019: 32
- FWCI
- 4.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Istanbul Technical University Academic Open Archive (Istanbul Technical University) (submittedVersion)
- PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
- Keywords
- polylactic acid, PLA blends, biodegradable polymers, poly(L-lactic acid), poly(D-lactide), stereocomplex crystals, immiscible polymer blends, miscible polymer blends, ternary mixtures, polymer nanocomposites, polymer processing, crystallization, morphology-property relationship, biomedical applications, petroleum substitute
- MeSH terms
- Biocompatible Materials, Biopolymers, Crystallization, Polyesters, Stereoisomerism, Nanocomposites, Mechanical Phenomena, Chemical Phenomena, Polymerization
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