Effect of prepolymer molecular weight on solid state polymerization of poly(bisphenol a carbonate) with nitrogen as a sweep fluid
- Authors
- Kim, Jaehoon; Roberts, George W.; Kiserow, Douglas J.
- Issue Date
- 2008-08-01
- Publisher
- JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY, v.46, no.15, pp.4959 - 4969
- Abstract
- The effect of prepolymer molecular weight on the solid-state polymerization (SSP) of poly(bisphenol A carbonate) was investigated using nitrogen (N-2) as a sweep fluid. Prepolymers with different number-average molecular weights, 3800 and 2400 g/mol, were synthesized using melt transesterification. SSP of the two prepolymers then was carried out at reaction temperatures in the range 120-190 degrees C, with a prepolymer particle size in the range 20-45 mu m and a N2 flow rate of 1600 mL/min. The glass transition temperature (T-g), number-average molecular weight (M-n), and percent crystallinity were measured at various times during each SSR The phenyl-to-phenolic end-group ratio of the prepolymers and the solid-state synthesized polymers was determined using 125.76 MHz C-13 and 500.13 MHz H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. At each reaction temperature, SSP of the higher-molecular-weight prepolymer (M-n = 3800 g/mol) always resulted in higher-molecular-weight polymers, compared with the polymers synthesized using the lower molecular weight prepolymer (M-n = 2400 g/mol). Both the crystallinity and the lamellar thickness of the polymers synthesized from the lower-molecular-weight prepolymer were significantly higher than for those synthesized from the higher-molecular-weight prepolymer. Higher crystallinity and lamellar thickness may lower the reaction rate by reducing chain-end mobility, effectively reducing the rate constant for the reaction of end groups. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Keywords
- BISPHENOL-A POLYCARBONATE; REACTION-KINETICS; MELT POLYCONDENSATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; POLY(ETHYLENE-TEREPHTHALATE); DIOXIDE; BISPHENOL-A POLYCARBONATE; REACTION-KINETICS; MELT POLYCONDENSATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; POLY(ETHYLENE-TEREPHTHALATE); DIOXIDE; crystallization; poly(bisphenol A carbonate); polycarbonates; prepolymer molecular weight; solid-state polymerization
- ISSN
- 0887-624X
- URI
- https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/133242
- DOI
- 10.1002/pola.22819
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- KIST Article > 2008
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