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Ternary biodegradable polymer blends of poly(lactic acid) (PLA), poly(butylene succinate) (PBS), and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) with the composition 45/10/45 wt% and exhibiting partial-wetting morphology were prepared. In this morphology, the minor phase is present as self-assembled droplets at the co-continuous interface of the other two major...

Three semicrystalline polyesters, poly(lactic acid), poly(caprolactone) and poly(butylene succinate) (PLA, PCL and PBS) were melt blended to prepare binary and ternary systems of selected compositions. In binary blends with a sea-island morphology, each of the polymers is either the major or dispersed phase in the various samples. Analogously,...

This work presents the first investigation on the crystallization behavior of partially wet droplets in immiscible ternary blends. Poly(lactide), poly(ϵ-caprolactone), and poly(butylene succinate) (PLA, PCL, and PBS, respectively) were melt blended in a 10/45/45 weight ratio to produce a "partial wetting" morphology with droplets of the PLA...