Thermal Degradation and Kinetics of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/Organoclay Nanocomposites |
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| Authors: | Matko Erceg Tonka Kovačić Ivka Klarić |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Organic Technology, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, Teslina 10/V, 21 000 Split, Croatia |
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| Abstract: | Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/Cloisite30B (PHB/30B) nanocomposites were prepared by solution-intercalation method. The influence of 30B content on the thermal stability of PHB was investigated. With the addition of 3 wt. % of 30B the highest thermal stability of PHB was achieved. The kinetic analysis of the non-isothermal degradation was performed using the isoconversional Friedman method and invariant kinetic parameters method. |
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| Keywords: | kinetics nanocomposites non-isothermal thermogravimetry (TG) poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) thermal properties |
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