A morphological study of membranes obtained from the systems polylactide-dioxane-methanol, polylactide-dioxane-water and polylactide-N-methyl pyrrolidone-water

Witte van de, P. and Esselbrugge, H. and Dijkstra, P.J. and Berg van den, J.W.A. and Feijen, J. (1996) A morphological study of membranes obtained from the systems polylactide-dioxane-methanol, polylactide-dioxane-water and polylactide-N-methyl pyrrolidone-water. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer physics, 34 (15). pp. 2569-2578. ISSN 0887-6266

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Abstract:	The influence of liquid-liquid demixing, solid-liquid demixing, and vitrification on the membrane morphologies obtained from several polylactide-solvent-nonsolvent systems has been investigated. The polymers investigated were the semicrystalline poly-L-lactide (PLLA) and the amorphous poly-DL-lactide (PDLLA). The solvent-nonsolvent systems used were dioxane-water, N-methyl pyrrolidone-water and dioxane-methanol. For each of these systems it was attempted to relate the membrane morphology to the ternary phase diagram at 25°C. It was demonstrated that for the amorphous poly-DL-lactide the intersection of a glass transition and a liquid-liquid miscibility gap in the phase diagram was a prerequisite for the formation of stable membrane structures. For the semicrystalline PLLA a wide variety of morphologies could be obtained ranging from cellular to spherulitical structures. For membrane-forming combinations that show delayed demixing, trends expected on the basis of phase diagrams were in reasonable agreement with the observed membrane morphologies. Only for the rapidly precipitating system PLLA-N-methyl pyrrolidone-water were structures due to liquid-liquid demixing obtained when structures due to solid-liquid demixing were expected. Probably, rapid precipitation conditions promote solid-liquid demixing over liquid-liquid demixing, because the activation energy necessary for liquid-liquid demixing is lower than that for crystallization.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1996 Wiley InterScience
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Polymer Chemistry and BioMaterials (PBM)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/71257
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0488(19961115)34:15<2569::AID-POLB4>3.0.CO;2-O
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