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- Title
Cationic polymerization of high‐molecular‐weight phthalaldehyde‐butanal copolymer.
- Authors
Schwartz, Jared M.; Gourdin, Gerald; Phillips, Oluwadamilola; Engler, Anthony; Lee, Jihyun; Abdulkadir, Niya R.; Miller, Ryan C.; Sutlief, Alexandra; Kohl, Paul A.
- Abstract
Low ceiling temperature polyaldehydes are of interest for transient materials because the temperature of depolymerization can be at or below room temperature. There is interest in expanding the number of aldehydes which can be copolymerized so as to change the vapor pressure and other properties of the depolymerized products. Although fast depolymerization has been achieved with polyaldehydes, the rate of monomer evaporation after depolymerization can be controlled by incorporating lower molecular weight monomers into the polymer. High vapor pressure aliphatic aldehydes have been copolymerized with low vapor pressure and high reactivity phthalaldehyde to create stable, high molecular weight polymers with high vapor pressure. A method for measuring the depolymerization time by quartz crystal microbalance has been developed. The copolymer of phthalaldehyde and butanal improves the evaporation time for the polymer by a factor of 11. The onset of thermal decomposition of the copolymer was increased from 107 °C for the phthalaldehyde homopolymer to 141 °C for the copolymer. The tensile strength of the copolymer was 0.8–1.6 GPa. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2019, 136, 46921.
- Subjects
POLYALDEHYDES; DEPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; VAPOR pressure; QUARTZ crystal microbalances
- Publication
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2019, Vol 136, Issue 2, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0021-8995
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/app.46921