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Polylactide (PLA) has emerged as one of the most promising bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, mainly because it can be produced from the fermentation of naturally occurring sugars and because it can be industrially compostable. In spite of these benefits, the industrial ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of l-lactide (L-LA) still requires the use of highly active and thermally stable metal-based catalysts, which have raised some environmental concerns.

Download Hi-Res ImageDownload to MS-PowerPointCite This:Macromolecules 2020, XXXX, XXX RETURN TO ARTICLES ASAPPREVArticleNEXT Leire Sangroniz* Leire Sangroniz POLYMAT and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain *Email: , Ainara Sangroniz Ainara Sangroniz POLYMAT and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque...

Double crystalline multiblock copolymers exhibit two well-defined melting temperatures associated with the two phases formed by their constituent blocks. The crystalline superstructure formed in these copolymers is complex and depends on the miscibility of both comonomers. In this work, an innovative series of double crystalline poly(ethylene terephthalate)-mb-poly(oxyhexane) multiblock copolymers were prepared in one pot.