Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters
Abstract
Converting biomass-based feedstocks into polymers not only reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, but also furnishes multiple opportunities to design biorenewable polymers with targeted properties and functionalities. Here we report a series of high glass transition temperature (Tg up to 184°C) polyesters derived from sugar-based furan derivatives as well as a joint experimental and theoretical study of substituent effects on their thermal properties. Surprisingly, we find that polymers with moderate steric hindrance exhibit the highest Tg values. Through a detailed Ramachandran-type analysis of the rotational flexibility of the polymer backbone, we find that additional steric hindrance does not necessarily increase chain stiffness in these polyesters. We attribute this interesting structure-property relationship to a complex interplay between methyl-induced steric strain and the concerted rotations along the polymer backbone. We believe that our findings provide key insight into the relationship between structure and thermal properties across a range of synthetic polymers.
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- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States)
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1543746
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- AC02-05CH11231
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United States
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- English
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- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Science & Technology; Other Topics
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Yu, Xiaopeng, Jia, Junteng, Xu, Shu, Lao, Ka Un, Sanford, Maria J., Ramakrishnan, Ramesh K., Nazarenko, Sergei I., Hoye, Thomas R., Coates, Geoffrey W., and DiStasio, Jr., Robert A. Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05269-3.
Yu, Xiaopeng, Jia, Junteng, Xu, Shu, Lao, Ka Un, Sanford, Maria J., Ramakrishnan, Ramesh K., Nazarenko, Sergei I., Hoye, Thomas R., Coates, Geoffrey W., & DiStasio, Jr., Robert A. Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05269-3
Yu, Xiaopeng, Jia, Junteng, Xu, Shu, Lao, Ka Un, Sanford, Maria J., Ramakrishnan, Ramesh K., Nazarenko, Sergei I., Hoye, Thomas R., Coates, Geoffrey W., and DiStasio, Jr., Robert A. Mon .
"Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05269-3. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1543746.
@article{osti_1543746,
title = {Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters},
author = {Yu, Xiaopeng and Jia, Junteng and Xu, Shu and Lao, Ka Un and Sanford, Maria J. and Ramakrishnan, Ramesh K. and Nazarenko, Sergei I. and Hoye, Thomas R. and Coates, Geoffrey W. and DiStasio, Jr., Robert A.},
abstractNote = {Converting biomass-based feedstocks into polymers not only reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, but also furnishes multiple opportunities to design biorenewable polymers with targeted properties and functionalities. Here we report a series of high glass transition temperature (Tg up to 184°C) polyesters derived from sugar-based furan derivatives as well as a joint experimental and theoretical study of substituent effects on their thermal properties. Surprisingly, we find that polymers with moderate steric hindrance exhibit the highest Tg values. Through a detailed Ramachandran-type analysis of the rotational flexibility of the polymer backbone, we find that additional steric hindrance does not necessarily increase chain stiffness in these polyesters. We attribute this interesting structure-property relationship to a complex interplay between methyl-induced steric strain and the concerted rotations along the polymer backbone. We believe that our findings provide key insight into the relationship between structure and thermal properties across a range of synthetic polymers.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-05269-3},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {7}
}
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