Glass transition and disorder-to-order phase transition behavior of poly(l-lactic acid) revealed by infrared spectroscopy

Jianming Zhang, Chenwei Li, Yongxin Duan, Abraham J. Domb, Yukihiro Ozaki

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Abstract

A detailed analysis of the IR spectral changes of melt-quenched poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) sample is presented. It is found that the glass transition, cold crystallization, disorder-to-order and melting behavior of melt-quenched PLLA can be clearly revealed by choosing suitable characteristic bands and combing the 1st derivative manipulation. Of particular note, it is found that, there are chain segment relaxation for both the irregular conformation and the regular helical conformation in the process of glass transition. During the disorder-to-order phase transition, the content of 10/3 helix as indicated by the helical band at 921 cm-1 increases slightly, which suggests that the structural rearrangement and recrystallization may take place at the same time. These results provide more information to understand the glass transition and disorder-to-order phase transition behavior of PLLA at molecular level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)307-310
Number of pages4
JournalVibrational Spectroscopy
Volume53
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Jul 2010
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The financial supports from Natural Science Foundation of China (20804004), Taishan Mountain Scholar Constructive Engineering Foundation (TS20081120), Doctoral Fund of Qingdao University of Science and Technology and Open Project of Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education are greatly appreciated.

Funding

The financial supports from Natural Science Foundation of China (20804004), Taishan Mountain Scholar Constructive Engineering Foundation (TS20081120), Doctoral Fund of Qingdao University of Science and Technology and Open Project of Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education are greatly appreciated.

FundersFunder number
Open Project of Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics
Taishan Mountain Scholar Constructive Engineering FoundationTS20081120
National Natural Science Foundation of China20804004
Ministry of Education
Qingdao University of Science and Technology

    Keywords

    • Glass transition
    • IR spectroscopy
    • Phase transition
    • Polymer

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