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. 2017 Oct 19;9(10):528. doi: 10.3390/polym9100528

Table 4.

Thermal properties of PLA-based composites as a function of different GO/PEG.

Samples Tm1 (°C) Tm2 (°C) Tcc (°C) Tc (°C) ΔHm (J/g) ΔHcc (J/g) ΔHc (J/g) Xc (%)
PEG-4000 58.2 61.9 --- 39.1 154.1 --- 149.6 72.3
PEG-20,000 --- 68.3 --- 44.8 157.3 --- 153.5 73.9
A 161.3 168.5 110.1 --- 33.7 28.5 9.78 5.5
B 164.7 171.6 --- 99.6 29.8 --- 26.3 31.8
C --- 169.4 100.3 103.2 34.1 15.9 14.6 19.4
D 163.8 170.1 --- 102.7 30.5 --- 15.3 32.6
F 164.2 170.2 --- 102.9 36.8 --- 24.3 39.3
G 163.9 172.7 --- 104.4 28.7 --- 13.5 30.6
I 163.1 170.3 --- 108.3 25.4 --- 11.8 27.1

Tm1, Tm2, and Tcc represent melting temperature 1, melting temperature 2, and cooling crystallization temperature of second DSC scan, respectively. The melting enthalpy of 100% crystalline PEG and PLA employ 93.7 J/g [39] and 213.0 J/g [41].