Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate)-graft-poly(ε-caprolactone) as a compatibilizer for cellulose acetate/poly(ε-caprolactone) blends

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (5) ◽  
pp. 2945-2954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomokazu Higeshiro ◽  
Yoshikuni Teramoto ◽  
Yoshiyuki Nishio
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 4461-4469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifeng Zhang ◽  
You-Lo Hsieh

Nano-structural features were introduced to ultrafine cellulose acetate (CA) fibers by electrospinning of its mixtures with either poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) PVP or β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) in DMF, followed by dissolution of the added PVP or β-CD. The presence of the charge-holding PVP enabled fiber formation from CA below its entanglement chain length and improved the electrospinning efficiency to produce bicomponent fibers with wide ranging diameters from 30 to 650 nm. At up to 50% contents, the PVP in the bicomponent fibers was phase-separated from CA and, upon removal, resulting in highly angulated fiber surfaces with nanometer-size spherulites and sub-micron size ridges and grooves. Adding β-CD to CA enabled fiber formation at concentrations below the chain entanglement concentration Ce (16.5%). Hydrogen bonding between β-CD and CA, as evident by FTIR, helped to distribute β-CD as individual molecules in the CA matrix and producing more uniform and finer (130–150 nm in diameters) fibers, irrespective of their β-CD contents. Removal of β-CD from the fibers originally containing 40% β-CD, generated nanoporous fibers with 2-nm nanopores and 70% increase in specific surface and doubled pore volume.


e-Polymers ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai-Cosmin Corobea ◽  
Violeta Uricanu ◽  
Dan Donescu ◽  
Szabolcs Deladi ◽  
Constantin Radovici ◽  
...  

AbstractNanocomposites containing poly(vinyl acetate) and montmorillonite (MMT) were prepared using a one-batch emulsion polymerization recipe, assisted by poly (vinylpyrrolidone). The relative clay concentration with respect to the other reaction partners influences drastically the morphological units in the end-products. For low [MMT], well-defined, spherical PVAc particles are formed. At the other extreme, for high [MMT], production of polymeric, water-swollen aggregates is favored. Depending on the MMT/PVP ratio, the clay will be dispersed in the final polymer matrix in variable forms, from individual platelets to agglomerates of reformed tactoids.


Cellulose ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiro Ohno ◽  
Sachiko Yoshizawa ◽  
Yoshiharu Miyashita ◽  
Yoshiyuki Nishio

2010 ◽  
pp. NA-NA
Author(s):  
M. M. Castillo-Ortega ◽  
J. Romero-García ◽  
F. Rodríguez ◽  
A. Nájera-Luna ◽  
P. J. Herrera-Franco

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