using dicumyl peroxide (DCP). Swelling, dissolution, and electron microscopy revealed that
the unvulcanized and weekly vulcanized blends (DCP< 3 wt%) show a continuous rubber
phase while the highly vulcanized blends (DCP> 3 wt%) show co‐continuous rubber/PLA
phase. In the latter blends, the tensile toughness (1.3 MJ m− 3) and the tensile‐impact
strength of the neat PLA (58 kJ m− 2) were increased of a factor 12.5 and 8.3 respectively …