Effects of hard- and soft-segment composition on pyrolysis characteristics of MDI, BD, and PTMG-based polyurethane elastomers
2017
Abstract A study of the morphology changes in polyurethane elastomers (PUEs) containing different hard- and soft-segment ratios during ramped-heating
pyrolysisrevealed that selectivity of urethane
bond cleavageis controlled by only the segment composition. Several PUEs were synthesized using 4,4′-
diphenylmethane diisocyanate,
1,4-butanediol, and poly(oxytetramethylene glycol) (PTMG) to examine the influence of segment composition on
pyrolysischaracteristics by
pyrolysis–gas chromatography/mass spectrometry,
evolved gas analysis–mass spectrometry, and isoconversional kinetic studies. Soft-segment-rich PUEs tended to undergo urethane
bond cleavagevia a 4-membered-ring
transition state, while the linkages in other compositions were selectively cleaved via a 6-membered-ring
transition state. The reaction selectivity can be explained by the different conformations of the urethane bonds: in the hard-segment domains by H-bonds between urethane unit N H and C O groups, and in soft-segment-rich environments by H-bonds between urethane N H groups and PTMG O linkages. The mechanism of PTMG
pyrolysiswas the same for all PUEs.
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