New stable waterborne amorphous polylactic acid/organoclay nanocomposites prepared using emulsification solvent evaporation method
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Abstract
Abstract Water based polylactic acid (PLA)‐surface modified montmorillonite (MMt) nanocomposites as biobased formulations for paper coating were successfully developed using emulsification solvent evaporation method. Electrostatic and steric stabilization mechanisms have contributed to the production of stable emulsions up to 5 months at 23 ± 1°C, revealing strong repulsive forces generated between the nanoparticles as confirmed by zeta potential ( ζ ) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) analysis. MMt particles were fully encapsulated by PLA as demonstrated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs. Meanwhile the film formation process highlighted the importance of emulsifier's type and solubility in the polymer matrix, as no films were obtained when sodium oleate was used alone compared with continuous, homogeneous, and free‐standing films obtained when the combination Tween 80 (80 wt%)—sodium oleate (20 wt%) was used. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs of the cross‐section's surfaces showed homogeneous dispersion of the MMt particles with no clusters or agglomerates formed. Thermal analyses using differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis (DSC‐TGA) showed an overall reduction in the glass transition temperature ( T g ) and the thermal stability of neat PLA, whoever this reduction was recovered when MMt was added due to the confinement effect. Thickened PLA and PLA/MMt emulsions using 1 wt% xanthan gum showed a non‐Newtonian behavior and shear thinning flow with suitable viscosity values for paper coating applications. Highlights Development of stable PLA/organoclay nanocomposite aqueous dispersions. Steric and electrostatic mechanisms provided excellent stability. Full encapsulation of organoclay platelets in nanometric PLA particles. Formation of free‐standing films from PLA/organoclay emulsions. Thickened PLA/organoclay emulsions using Xanthan gum for paper coatings.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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