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. 2020 Feb 5;12(2):334. doi: 10.3390/polym12020334

Table 2.

Thermal properties of neat PCL and its formulations with GR and BW.

Material DSC HDT TGA
Tm (°C) Tc (°C) T (°C) T5% (°C) T90% (°C) Tmáx (°C)
PCL 58.2 ± 0.5 a 33.3 ± 1.3 a 43.6 ± 1.7 a 369.8 ± 1.9 a 588.0 ± 1.5 a 413.0 ± 1.0 a,b
PCL-GR 57.1 ± 0.4 a 26.3 ± 1.4 b 42.1 ± 1.3 a 354.9 ± 2.1 b 684.9 ± 0.3 b 411.0 ± 1.4 a,b
PCL-GR-BW 56.8 ± 0.6 a 28.0 ± 0.8 b 38.8 ± 0.9 b 360.4 ± 0.8 c 587.6 ± 0.7 a 414.0 ± 1.3 b
PCL-BW 57.4 ± 0.8 a 26.7 ± 1.6 b 41.5 ± 1.0 a 342.7 ± 1.1 d 463.9 ± 1.2 c 410.0 ± 1.3 a

a–d Different letters within the same property show statistically significant differences between formulations (p < 0.05).