Sustainable Polylactide-Based Blends

Sustainable Polylactide-Based Blends provides a thorough and critical overview of the state-of-the-art in PLA-based blends, addressing the very latest advances, innovative processing techniques, and fundamental issues that persist in this field, and aims to support future research and industrial application of these materials.

The book begins by presenting the fundamentals of sustainable polymeric materials, polylactide, and polymer blends. This is followed by two chapters that introduce current and upcoming processing technologies, and structure and morphology characterization techniques for PLA and PLA-based blends. The main section of the book then covers in detail the processing, morphology development, and properties of polylactide-based blends, with each chapter examining a different material blend. The final chapters of the book focus on current and future applications, market potential, key challenges, and future outlook for polylactide-based blends.

Throughout the book, theoretical modeling of immiscible polymer blends helps to establish structure-property relationships in various PLA-based polymer blends. With in-depth coverage of fundamentals and processing techniques, the book also aims to support the selection of processing method and the understanding of surface chemistry, in order to achieve improved compatibility between phases. The emphasis on end application and market will help those in industry who want to bring advanced sustainable material-based products into the market.

This book is therefore a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, and advanced students across polymer science, materials science, and engineering, as well as all those working with bio-based materials. In an industrial setting, this is of great interest to engineers, researchers, and R&D professionals interested in developing PLA-based sustainable products for a range of advanced applications.