Properties of Polyimide/Silica Nanohybrids from Silicic Acid Oligomer

✍ Scribed by Haitao Wang; Wei Zhong; Peng Xu; Qiangguo Du

• Book ID: 102490098
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Volume: 289
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1438-7492
• DOI: 10.1002/mame.200400002

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Summary: A new method to synthesize polyimide (PI)/silica nanohybrids has been presented. It uses silicic acid oligomer as the silica precursor, which was obtained by extracting with tetrahydrofuran (THF) from PH‐adjusted water glass. The films of PI/silica nanohybrids remained transparent even at high silica content due to the formation of nanometer‐scaled SiO~2~ particles at the addition of γ‐aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES). In comparison with pure PI, PI/silica hybrids showed improved thermal stability and mechanical properties, and lower linear coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs). The glass transition temperatures of the hybrids were increased with increasing content of silica or APTES as a result of the increasing limitation to the movements of the PI backbone.

SEM photograph of PI 20/4.

magnified imageSEM photograph of PI 20/4.