Table 3. Glass Transition, Crystallization and Melting Temperatures, Crystallization and Melting Enthalpies, and the Degree of Crystallinity for Unprocessed PHBV and PLAP and for Processed PHBV and its Formulations with PLAP.

	1st heating			cooling				2nd heating
wPLAP	Tm (°C)	ΔHmc (J g–1)	χc (%)	Tc (°C)	ΔHcd (J g–1)	Tg (°C)	Tcc (°C)	ΔHcce (J g–1)	Tm (°C)	ΔHmc (J g–1)	χc (%)
0a	174	78	53	60	40	3	44	9	170	82	56
0	173	80	55	60	19	2	43	31	169	85	58
0.1	170	75	56	58	35	–1	42	11	168	78	59
0.2	174	67	56	48	11	–4	42	26	167	70	58
0.3	171	63	61	59	20	–9	42	16	166	63	61
1.0b						–31

^aUnprocessed PHBV.

^bUnprocessed PLAP.

^cMelting enthalpy.

^dCrystallization enthalpy.

^eCold crystallization enthalpy.