Abstract : Polylactide (PLA) and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are polymers made from renewable resources. Despite their growing competitiveness with conventional petrol-based polymers, they still have some disadvantages such as poor (fragile) mechanical properties. Blending is a potentially prospective way of obtaining new materials with improved properties, which can overcome the drawbacks of the pure components. In this work, PLA and poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) blends were prepared via melt mixing. Their morphology was observed by scanning electron microscopy and their tensile properties were studied.
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Thibaut Gérard, Tiffany Noto, Tatiana Budtova. Tensile Properties of Pla And Phbv Blends: Anomalous Elongation and Aging. 11th European Symposium on Polymer Blends - Polyblends 2012, Mar 2012, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain. ⟨hal-00722688⟩