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The esterification of glycerol with lactic acid was carried out to synthesize glyceryl lactate, which was used as a as a plasticizer with different contents and blended with poly(lactic acid) (PLA) to get a completely biodegradable material with potential applications because of its biodegradability. The structural, morphological, thermal, and mechanical properties of the plasticized PLA were studied to evaluate the plasticizing effects. The results show that the PLA plasticized with glyceryl lactate had a lower glass-transition temperature and a better ductility. With increasing plasticizer content, the crystallinity of PLA increased. The elongation at break reached 380%, and the impact strength was 1.7 times that of neat PLA. Simultaneously, the migration rate measurements showed that glyceryl lactate presented relatively low migration toward the surface compared with glycerol and citrate esters. V C 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016, 133, 43460.

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An in situ embed ionic liquid method is designed and employed in thermoplastic polyurethanes (PUs). Unlike the traditional physically incorporated antistatic polymers where conductive fillers do not firmly combined with the matrix. This permanently antistatic PUs are successfully synthesized by using a novel polyester diol bonded with ionic liquids (ILs), which are obtained by an esterification. The ILs and novel polyester polyol are successfully synthesized and subsequently characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum ( 1 H NMR), respectively. The effects of ILs content, temperature, and relative humidity (RH) on the surface resistivity of PUs are studied by surface resistivity tests. It is found that the surface resistivity of PUs dramatically decreases with the increment of ILs and are insensitive to surrounding environment. The surface resistivity of PUs with 5.96 wt% ILs reaches 10 10 X cm 22 order of magnitude. The crystalline properties, thermal decomposition behaviors and mechanical properties of synthesized PUs are investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and tensile test respectively. The crystallinity of PUs with ILs is lower than that of pure PUs. Moreover, we also investigate the effect of ILs on the surface morphology of the PUs. POLYM.ENG. SCI., 56:629-635,

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