Table 4.
Glass transition temperature (Tg), crystallization temperature (Tc), melting temperature (Tm) and cold crystallization temperature (Tcc), and percent crystallinity of gamma-sterilized probes via DSC.
| Composite | Tg (°C) |
Tc (°C) | ΔHc (J/g) | Tm1 (°C) | ΔHm1 (J/g) |
Tm2 (°C) | ΔHm2 (J/g) | Tcc (°C) | ΔHcc (J/g) |
PLA % Crystallinity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLA | 59.4 | 95.7 | 24.7 | 176.8 | 51.0 | 175.5 | 48.0 | 107.5 | 22.7 | 51.2 |
| 20PLA/1CP/1DE | 56.2 | 88.0 | 23.3 | 177.6 | 56.2 | 171.3/177.6 | 40.4 | 113.2 | 40.7 | 47.4 |
| 20PLA/1CP/0DE | 56.9 | 88.1 | 28.5 | 175.7 | 63.1 | 175.8 | 48.8 | 108.1 | 41.3 | 54.7 |
| 20PLA/0CP/1DE | 58.3 | 86.4 | 23.4 | 175.8 | 61.3 | 170.5/176.9 | 43.4 | 113.6 | 43.3 | 48.6 |
| 20PLA/1CP/5DE | 58.7 | 93.1 | 23.2 | 175.9 | 49.5 | 176.8 | 36.4 | 111.4 | 32.8 | 50.5 |