Formation of porous matrices from lactide and ε-caprolactone copolymers in supercritical carbon dioxide medium.

Autor: Timashev, P., Vorobieva, N., Minaev, N., Piskun, Yu., Vasilenko, I., Lakeev, S., Kostyuk, S., Lunin, V., Bagratashvili, V.
Zdroj: Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Focus on Physics; Dec2016, Vol. 10 Issue 8, p1195-1200, 6p
Abstrakt: A series of lactide and ε-caprolactone copolymers containing 4-24 mol % of ε-caprolactone with 20- to 30-kDa molecular weights are synthesized. Based on them, porous materials are produced by foaming in supercritical carbon dioxide. The pore size was shown to decrease with increasing ε-caprolactone content in copolymer, while the porosity of the entire sample was not altered. The resulting pore size also decreases if 7 wt % polyethylene glycol is added to the initial monomer mixture. The Young's modulus of the porous samples decreases with increasing ε-caprolactone content and when polyethylene glycol is added. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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