Thermal crosslinking of cis-1,4-polybutadiene at ultrahigh pressures

✍ Scribed by Xing-Rong Zeng; Tze-Man Ko

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 387 KB
• Volume: 67
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8995
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19980328)67:13<2131::aid-app3>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

cis-1,4-Polybutadiene (BR) samples, in the absence of crosslinking agents, were simultaneously compressed by ultrahigh pressures ( ú4.0 GPa) and annealed between 25 and 180ЊC. The BR samples were crosslinked when the annealing temperatures were above 100ЊC. The Vickers microhardness of the treated BR increased and the extent of swelling decreased rapidly as the annealing temperature increased, indicating that the crosslinking density increased. Solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy results showed that some C|C bonds in the BR were opened to form the crosslinking network structures with C{C linkages and that a partial cis-trans isomerization took place during the treatments. Differential scanning calorimetry studies revealed that the glass transition temperature increased and the crystallinity decreased as the annealing temperature increased. When the annealing temperature exceeded 140ЊC, the treated BR samples lost their rubbery elastic characteristics completely and became brittle materials.