Influence of stoichiometry on the glass transition and bond exchange reactions in epoxy thermoset polymers

被引:144
作者
Yu, Kai [1 ]
Taynton, Philip [2 ]
Zhang, Wei [2 ]
Dunn, Martin L. [3 ]
Qi, H. Jerry [1 ]
机构
[1] Georgia Inst Technol, George W Woodruff Sch Mech Engn, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Chem & Biochem, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Singapore Univ Technol & Design, Singapore, Singapore
来源
RSC ADVANCES | 2014年 / 4卷 / 89期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
CROSS-LINKED POLYMERS; OLEFIN METATHESIS; AMINE MIXTURES; NETWORKS; TEMPERATURE; DYNAMICS; GELATION;
D O I
10.1039/c4ra06543c
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Thermally malleable polymers which undergo covalent bond exchange reactions (BERs) have been shown to be able to rearrange their network topology at high temperatures without impairing the network integrity. At low temperatures, the BERs are so sluggish that the materials behave like traditional thermosetting polymers. In this paper, we demonstrated that the temperature dependent BER rate could be tuned by adjusting the stoichiometry of monomers. As the ratio of hard segments in the epoxy thermoset network is increased, the material's glass transition temperature (T-g) is increased, with a corresponding increase in the temperature required to achieve a given stress relaxation rate. The material stress relaxation behavior was studied from both a theoretical and experimental point of view. Based on the kinetics of BERs, we derived the detailed expression of stress relaxation time, which reveals an Arrhenius type dependency of material relaxation behavior on the applied temperature. Subsequently, from the experimental stress relaxation curves, we determined the energy barrier for the BERs in different networks. With the T-g being elevated from 30.3 degrees C to 63.0 degrees C, the BER energy barrier is linearly increased from 68.2 kJ mol(-1) to 97.3 kJ mol(-1). Such a correlation between these two thermomechanical behaviors provides an additional design parameter (beyond catalyst choice) which can aid in achieving highly tunable service conditions for practical engineering applications of thermally malleable thermosets.
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页码:48682 / 48690
页数:9
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