Issue 4, 2017

Polylactic acid macromonomer radical propagation kinetics and degradation behaviour

Abstract

Polylactic acid ethyl ester methacrylate (PLANEMA) macromonomers are synthesized with N = 1, 5, 7, and 9 average number of polyester units. While propagation rate coefficients (kp) determined by pulsed laser polymerization experiments for bulk PLA1EMA and PLA5EMA are not significantly different over the 40–100 °C temperature range, they are elevated by 60% compared to methyl methacrylate, indicating that the nature of substituents several units beyond the methacrylic group does not decisively impact bulk kp measurements. Compared to bulk PLA5EMA, the apparent kp in 75 wt% n-butanol solution is enhanced due to hydrogen bonding, whereas in 75 wt% dimethylformamide solution it is reduced by 35% because of differences in macromonomer and solvent molar volumes. The PLA5EMA macromonomers are used to produce nanoparticles (NP) by emulsion radical polymerization that degrade almost four times more slowly than NPs produced from their hydroxyl terminated macromonomer counterpart.

Graphical abstract: Polylactic acid macromonomer radical propagation kinetics and degradation behaviour

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Feb 2017
Accepted
25 Eph 2017
First published
25 Eph 2017

React. Chem. Eng., 2017,2, 487-497

Polylactic acid macromonomer radical propagation kinetics and degradation behaviour

T. R. Rooney, D. Moscatelli and R. A. Hutchinson, React. Chem. Eng., 2017, 2, 487 DOI: 10.1039/C7RE00019G

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