13 PART V: APPLICATIONS 25 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS 25.1 INTRODUCTION 25.2 MINIMAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES 25.3 PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF PLA DEVICES 25.4 CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES 26 PACKAGING AND CONSUMER GOODS 26.1 INTRODUCTION: POLYLACTIC ACID (PLA) IN PACKAGING AND CONSUMER GOODS 26.2 FOOD AND BEVERAGE 26.3 DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING 26.4 OTHER CONSUMER GOODS: AUTOMOTIVE 26.5 OTHER CONSUMER GOODS 26.6 CHALLENGES AND FINAL REMARKS REFERENCES 27 TEXTILE APPLICATIONS 27.1 INTRODUCTION 27.2 MANUFACTURING, PROPERTIES, AND STRUCTURE OF PLA FIBERS 27.3 KEY PERFORMANCE FEATURES OF PLA FIBERS 27.4 POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS 27.5 CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES 28 ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS 28.1 INTRODUCTION 28.2 APPLICATION TO WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT 28.3 APPLICATION TO METHANOGENESIS 28.4 APPLICATION TO BIOREMEDIATION 28.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS AND PROSPECTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES
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List of Tables
1 IntroductionTABLE P.1 Significant Events Related to PLA Production that Occurred Over th...
2 Chapter 1TABLE 1.1 Physical Properties of Lactic Acid [14] TABLE 1.2 Summary of Lactic Acid Purification Methods TABLE 1.3 Physical Properties of the Lactides
3 Chapter 2TABLE 2.1 Physical Properties of Lactic Acid TABLE 2.2 Physical Properties of Lactide TABLE 2.3 Vapor Pressure of Anhydrous Lactic Acid TABLE 2.4 Liquid Phase Mole Fractions of Lactic Acid + Water VLE at 101.33 ...TABLE 2.5 Vapor Phase Mole Fractions of Lactic Acid + Water VLE at 101.33 k...
4 Chapter 3TABLE 3.1 Diisocyanates Used in the Preparation of Aliphatic Poly(ester‐ure...TABLE 3.2 Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Poly(ester‐urethane)s...
5 Chapter 5TABLE 5.1 Unit Cell Parameters Reported for the sc Crystals TABLE 5.2 Mechanical and Thermal Properties of the Representative Bio‐Based...TABLE 5.3 Thermal and Mechanical Properties Reported for the sc‐PLA‐Based C...
6 Chapter 7TABLE 7.1 Infrared Spectroscopy Data: Peak Band Assignments for Semicrystal...TABLE 7.2 Assignments for the FTIR Bands in the 1260–1000 cm−1 Region for P...
7 Chapter 8TABLE 8.1 Glass Transition Temperature (T g), Change of Specific Heat at T...TABLE 8.2 Effect of Cooling Rate on the Residual Molar Mass of Different Vi...TABLE 8.3 Glass Transition Temperature (T g) and Change of Specific Heat at...TABLE 8.4 Thermal Data of Selected PLA Commercial Polymers (Pellets), Selec...
8 Chapter 9TABLE 9.1 Nomenclature of Dilute Solution Viscometry TABLE 9.2 Flexible Linear Polymer Melt Chain Comparisons.
9 Chapter 10TABLE 10.1 Mechanical Properties of PLLA Specimens with Different Molecular...TABLE 10.2 Mechanical Properties of PDLLA Specimens with Different Molecula...TABLE 10.3 Influence of Temperature on PLA Flexural Properties [39] TABLE 10.4 Overview of Main End‐Use Characteristics of PLA Nanocomposites [...TABLE 10.5 Thermal and Mechanical Properties of PLA Plasticized with Differ...
10 Chapter 11TABLE 11.1 EP, ED, and ΔHS for Selected Gases at 0% RH, Except for ClO2 at 5...TABLE 11.2 Changes