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Cellulosic Polymer Blends 2: With Aliphatic Polyesters

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Blends and Graft Copolymers of Cellulosics

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This chapter presents a review of the authors’ studies on blends of cellulosic and chitinous polymers with a typical biodegradable polyester, poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL). A miscibility map is constructed for a series of cellulose ester (CE)/PCL blends as a function of the carbon number (N) in the acyl substituent of CE and the degree of substitution (DS). The map reveals that cellulose butyrate (CB), with N = 4, is miscible with PCL at a comparatively lower DS, owing to a structural similarity advantage for the ester side-group of CB with a repeating unit of PCL. The melt-crystallization behavior of PCL in the miscible blends is also described, and the observed slower kinetics is interpreted in terms of a thermodynamic diluent effect of the CE component. A similar miscibility characterization is made for a comparable series of acylated chitin (Acyl-Ch)/PCL blends. The blend miscibility of the chitinous series is generally lower owing to the concurrence of N-acylation at the C2 position than that for the cellulosic series. The tensile ductility and cytocompatibility are evaluated for selected Acyl-Ch/PCL blends with different degrees of miscibility and crystallinity, by using their thermally molded and alkali-treated films. The adaptability of the chitinous blends as cell-scaffolding materials is attainable by adequately controlling the mixing state of the polymer components.

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The review in this chapter is based on the authors’ studies that have been carried out in Professor Y. Nishio’s laboratory of Kyoto University. The authors would like to express their sincerest gratitude for his excellent navigation and invaluable suggestions. The authors are also grateful to many colleagues in the laboratory for their kind help in various ways.

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Kusumi, R., Teramoto, Y. (2017). Cellulosic Polymer Blends 2: With Aliphatic Polyesters. In: Blends and Graft Copolymers of Cellulosics. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55321-4_3

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