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fundamentals, manufacturing, and applications
Front Cover; Polylactide Foams; Series Page; Polylactide Foams: Fundamentals, Manufacturing, and Applications; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 -- Introduction to Plastic Foams and Their Foaming; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Foaming Concepts and Classification; 1.3 Blowing Agents for Foaming; 1.4 Plastic Foaming Mechanisms; 1.4.1 Formation of Polymer/Gas Solution; 1.4.2 Cell Nucleation; 1.4.3 Cell Growth; 1.5 Thermoplastic Foam Manufacturing; 1.5.1 Extrusion Foaming; 1.5.1.1 Governing Mechanism of Volume Expansion; 1.5.2 Foam Injection Molding; 1.5.3 Bead Foaming
2 -- Introduction to Polylactide and Polylactide Foaming2.1 Background; 2.2 Polylactide Structure; 2.3 Crystallization Behavior of Polylactide; 2.3.1 Effects of d-Lactide Content on Polylactide's Crystallization; 2.3.2 Effects of Molecular Weight on Polylactide's Crystallization; 2.3.3 Effects of Chain Branching on Polylactide's Crystallization; 2.4 Glass Transition Temperature Behavior of Polylactide; 2.5 Rheological Properties of Polylactide; 2.6 Polylactide/Gas Mixture Behaviors; 2.7 Polylactide Foam Manufacturing Technologies; 2.7.1 Polylactide Extrusion Foaming
2.7.2 Polylactide Foam Injection Molding2.7.3 Polylactide Bead Foaming; 3 -- Polylactide PVT, Solubility, and Interfacial Tension Behavior in Presence of Dissolved CO2; 3.1 Polylactide Solubility and Pressure-Volume-Temperature Behaviors; 3.1.1 Pressure-Volume-Temperature Measurement (Specific Volume and Swelling Ratio); 3.1.2 Measurement of Gas Solubility; 3.1.3 The Effect of "D" Content on the Solubility; 3.1.4 Summary; 3.2 Polylactide Interfacial Tension Behavior; 3.2.1 Density Determination; 3.2.2 Interfacial Tension
3.2.2.1 Effects of Pressure and Temperature on the Polylactide's Interfacial Tension3.2.2.2 Effect of D-Content on the Polylactide's Interfacial Tension; 3.2.3 Summary; 4 -- Polylactide Crystallization Kinetics in Presence of Dissolved Gas; 4.1 Effects of Molecular Architecture (i.e., Branched vs. Linear Structure); 4.1.1 Isothermal Differential Scanning Calorimeter Thermograms and Avrami Analysis; 4.1.2 Effect of Branching on Final Crystallinity of Isothermally Treated Polylactide; 4.1.3 Effect of CO2 Pressure on Final Crystallinity of Isothermally Treated Polylactide
4.1.4 Optical Microscopy of Isothermally Treated Polylactide4.1.5 Nonisothermal Differential Scanning Calorimeter Thermograms and Avrami Analysis; 4.1.6 Effects of Branching, CO2 Pressure, and Cooling Rate on Final Crystallinity; 4.1.7 Effects of CO2 Pressure, Branching, and Cooling Rate on Tc and Tg; 4.1.8 Summary; 4.2 Effects of Different Types of Dissolved Gases; 4.2.1 Crystal Melting Behavior of Polylactide Under High-Pressure Gas; 4.2.2 Nonisothermal Melt Crystallization; 4.2.3 Polylactide's Isothermal Melt Crystallization Under 1 and 45 bar of CO2, N2, and Helium Pressures
Includes bibliographical references and index.