Lactide copolymer, and resin composition and film comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9382385-B2
Application number	US-201314434353-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2013
Priority date	Dec 6, 2012
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a lactide copolymer exhibiting excellent flexibility and having more improved processability and productivity at the time of performing an extrusion and molding process, and a resin composition and film including the same, wherein the lactide copolymer includes a predetermined number of block copolymer repeating units in which hard segments of polylactide repeating units are bound to both ends of soft segments of polyether polyol repeating units, and has a weight-average molecular weight of 150,000 to 300,000, and a melt index y (MI; g/10 min) satisfying a specific relationship, the MI being measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of x□ between 170□ and 210□.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lactide copolymer comprising:
block copolymer repeating units in which hard segments of polylactide repeating units are bound to both ends of soft segments of polyether polyol repeating units, the block copolymer repeating unit being represented by Chemical Formula 1,
wherein the lactide copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 150,000 to 300,000, and a melt index y (MI; g/10 min) satisfying 0.0043x 2 -1.3026x+99.2≦y≦0.04x 2 -13.06x-1073.7, the MI being measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of x□ between 170□ and 210□:

in Chemical Formula 1, D is a C2 to C10 linear or branched alkylene group, x is each independently an integer of 30 to 500, and n is an integer of 30 to 1000.

2. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein it includes two or more of the block copolymer repeating units linked with each other via a urethane linking group.

3. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein the melt index measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of 170□ is 1.7 to 10.0.

4. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein the melt index measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of 180□ is 3.0 to 20.0.

5. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein the melt index measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of 190□ is 8.0 to 35.0.

6. The lactide copolymer of claim 2 , wherein the block copolymer repeating units are linked with each other via the urethane linking group induced from a polyvalent isocyanate compound having more than 2 equivalents of an average isocyanate group per a molecule.

7. The lactide copolymer of claim 6 , wherein the urethane linking group includes urethane bonds obtained by a reaction of a terminal hydroxy group derived from the polylactide repeating unit and the isocyanate group derived from the polyvalent isocyanate compound.

8. The lactide copolymer of claim 6 , wherein the polyvalent isocyanate compound includes a mixture of a diisocyanate compound and a polyvalent isocyanate compound having 3 or more equivalents of an isocyanate group.

9. The lactide copolymer of claim 8 , wherein the diisocyanate compound is selected from the group consisting of ethylene diisocyanate, 1,4-tetramethylene diisocyanate, 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate, 1,2-dodecane diisocyanate, cyclohexane-1,3-diisocyanate, cyclohexane-1,4-diisocyanate, 2,4-hexahydrotoluene diisocyanate, 2,6-hexahydrotoluene diisocyanate, hexahydro-1,3-phenylene diisocyanate, hexahydro-1,4-phenylene diisocyanate, perhydro-2,4-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, perhydro-4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, 1,3-phenylene diisocyanate, 1,4-phenylene diisocyanate, 1,4-stilbene diisocyanate, 3,3′-dimethyl-4,4′-diphenylene diisocyanate, toluene 2,4-diisocyanate (TDI), toluene 2,6-diisocyanate, diphenylmethane-2,4′-diisocyanate (MDI), diphenylmethane-2,2′-diisocyanate, diphenylmethane-4,4′-diisocyanate and naphthylene-1,5-diisocyanate, and
the polyvalent isocyanate compound having 3 or more equivalents of the isocyanate group is selected from the group consisting of an oligomer of the diisocyanate compound, a polymer of the diisocyanate compound, a cyclic polymer of the diisocyanate compound, hexamethylene diisocyanate isocyanurate (HDI isocyanurate), a triisocyanate compound and isomers thereof.

10. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein each of the block copolymer repeating units has a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 200,000.

11. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein the polyether polyol repeating unit is a polyalkylene glycol repeating unit selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene glycol (PEG) repeating unit, a poly(1,2-propylene glycol) repeating unit, a poly(1,3-propanediol) repeating unit, a polytetramethylene glycol repeating unit, and a polybutylene glycol repeating unit.

12. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein each of the polyether polyol repeating units has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 to 15,000.

13. The lactide copolymer of claim 1 , wherein the block copolymer repeating unit includes 50 to 95 wt % of the hard segment and 5 to 50 wt % of the soft segment with respect to the total weight.

14. A resin composition comprising the lactide copolymer of claim 1 .

15. A film comprising the lactide copolymer of claim 1 .

16. The film of claim 15 , wherein it is used as a packaging film.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd

Inventors

• Sohn Jung Min
• Park Seung Young
• Youk Kyung Seog
• Choi Seung Ho

Classifications

• C08J2353/00

  Characterised by the use of block copolymers containing at least one sequence of a polymer obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds; Derivatives of such polymers · CPC title

• C08J5/18

  Manufacture of films or sheets · CPC title

• C08J2387/00

  Characterised by the use of unspecified macromolecular compounds, obtained otherwise than by polymerisation reactions only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds · CPC title

• C08J2367/04

  Polyesters derived from hydroxy carboxylic acids, e.g. lactones (C08J2367/06 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C08G63/664

  derived from hydroxy carboxylic acids · CPC title