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Simultaneous interpenetrating networks of a polyurethane and poly([methyl methacrylate]-stat-[N,N-dimethylacrylamide])

✍ Scribed by V. Mishra; L. H. Sperling


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
841 KB
Volume
34
Category
Article
ISSN
0887-6266

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✦ Synopsis


In a previous study, tetrahedron metastable phase diagrams were presented for a model simultaneous interpenetrating network (SIN) system of cross-polyurethane-inter-crosspoly(methy1 methacrylate) (PU-PMMA). One triangular face of the overall tetrahedron diagram represented the ternary system MMA-PMMA-"U," wherein "U" denotes the monomer/prepolymer mixture for the PU. In this article, a comonomer, N,N-dimethylacrylamide (DMA), is incorporated into the PMMA network. Thus, the above-mentioned ternary system is altered to "A"-PA-"U," where "A" denotes the acrylic monomer mixture [MMA + DMA] and PA denotes the resulting copolymer. Glass transitions of fully cured samples were determined by dynamic mechanical spectroscopy (DMS). Phase separation was determined by the onset of turbidity, and gelation of the first gelling polymer was determined by the sudden resistance of the system to flow. The critical point, representing simultaneous phase separation and PA gelation, divides the overall composition for the reaction mixture (and the final SIN) into two parts. For one, gelation of the acrylic network precedes phase separation, and vice versa for the other part. In the absence of DMA in the PA network, the gelation-first region is very narrow, but with increasing amounts of copolymerized DMA, the critical point moves along the triangular face to increase the working area of the gelation-first region.


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