{"id":1767,"date":"2015-11-04T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:29:25","slug":"toughening-of-polyl-lactide-by-polyester-urethane-networks-based-on-castor-oil-modified-%c9%9b-caprolactone-oligomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/11\/toughening-of-polyl-lactide-by-polyester-urethane-networks-based-on-castor-oil-modified-%c9%9b-caprolactone-oligomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Toughening of Poly(L-Lactide) by Polyester-Urethane Networks Based on Castor Oil-Modified \u0190-Caprolactone Oligomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Japan conducted an experiment to increase the toughness of poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) with the help of polyester urethane networks obtained from castor oil based oligomers.\u00a0 Hydroxy-terminated castor oil-modified \u025b-<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1454 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/images-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"castor oil\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>caprolactone oligomers (CO-CLO<sub>n<\/sub>s) were prepared by ring opening polymerizations of \u025b-caprolactone initiated with castor oil. It was then allowed to react with poly(L-lactide) which produced semi-interpenetrating polymer networks composed of TDI-bridged CO-CLO<sub>n <\/sub>networksand PLLA.<\/p>\n<p>DSC analysis revealed that TCO-CLO<sub>10<\/sub>\/PLLA 75\/25\u00a0exhibited the highest tensile toughness compared to other polymer networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10965-015-0862-8\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Japan conducted an experiment to increase the toughness of poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) with the help of polyester urethane networks obtained from castor oil based oligomers.\u00a0 Hydroxy-terminated castor oil-modified \u025b-caprolactone oligomers (CO-CLOns) were prepared by ring opening polymerizations of \u025b-caprolactone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/11\/toughening-of-polyl-lactide-by-polyester-urethane-networks-based-on-castor-oil-modified-%c9%9b-caprolactone-oligomers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-oil-derivatives","tag-castor-oil-research-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}