In this research, polymer nanocomposites containing a highly
crystalline matrix, PHB, were processed and characterized, and the
results of these experiments were compared with earlier published
results [31] with a similar but less crystalline polymer, PCL. The goal
of this research was to more fully understand how the level of
crystallinity impacts nanocomposite properties in materials where
nanoparticle addition does not appreciably impact the amount of
polymer crystallinity.