Structure/property behavior of a segmented poly(ester urethane) containing different hard segment contents
- E. Bruce
- Mary Stinecipher
A series of poly(ester urethanes) containing different hard segment contents were synthesized to provide information on the development of hard domain structure. In contrast to previous studies, this work focuses on segmented poly(ester urethanes) containing low hard segment contents. By incrementally increasing the hard segment content, we monitored the development of the hard domain structure using thermal analysis and x-ray diffraction. Rapid quenching of the samples from the melt shows that the hard and soft segments are miscible for all compositions at elevated temperatures. If the Tg of the mixed phase is greater than ambient temperature, the structure is trapped in a metastable mixed phase. Heating the materials above the Tg causes demixing and the Tg of the soft domain decreases. If the mixed phase Tg is below ambient conditions, the hard domains spontaneously phase separate. The alternating copolymer of poly(butylene adipate) (Mn = 1K) soft segment and methylene diisocyanate (MDI) (19% hard segment) shows high poly(butylene adipate) crystallinity. The addition of very small amounts of butanediol chain extender greatly inhibits soft segment crystallization. For hard segment compositions greater than 45%, hard domains crystallize.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 975287
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-01-1936; TRN: US201008%%32
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: "Submitted to: Annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago, IL, August 26-31, 2001"
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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