scholarly journals Tuning chain extender structure to prepare high-performance thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers

RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (37) ◽  
pp. 20701-20711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Juan Xu ◽  
Jian Jun Wang ◽  
Shi Yu Zhang ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Chuan Xiang Qin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane ◽  
Chain Extender ◽  
Polyurethane Elastomers ◽  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers ◽  
Chain Extenders ◽  
Thermo Stability

Ester-containing ferrocenyl diols are introduced as chain extenders to tune the polyurethane superstructure to optimize thermo-stability and elasticity simultaneously.

scholarly journals The Green Approach to the Synthesis of Bio-Based Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers with Partially Bio-Based Hard Blocks

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2334
Author(s):  
Ewa Głowińska ◽  
Paulina Kasprzyk ◽  
Janusz Datta
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane ◽  
Viscoelastic Behavior ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Chain Extender ◽  
Sustainable Chemistry ◽  
Polyurethane Elastomers ◽  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers ◽  
Hard Segments

Bio-based polymeric materials and green routes for their preparation are current issues of many research works. In this work, we used the diisocyanate mixture based on partially bio-based diisocyanate origin and typical petrochemical diisocyanate for the preparation of novel bio-based thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers (bio-TPUs). We studied the influence of the diisocyanate mixture composition on the chemical structure, thermal, thermomechanical, and mechanical properties of obtained bio-TPUs. Diisocyanate mixture and bio-based 1,4-butanediol (as a low molecular chain extender) created bio-based hard blocks (HS). The diisocyanate mixture contained up to 75 wt % of partially bio-based diisocyanate. It is worth mentioning that the structure and amount of HS impact the phase separation, processing, thermal or mechanical properties of polyurethanes. The soft blocks (SS) in the bio-TPU’s materials were built from α,ω-oligo(ethylene-butylene adipate) diol. Hereby, bio-TPUs differed in hard segments content (c.a. 30; 34; 40, and 53%). We found that already increase of bio-based diisocyanate content of the bio-TPU impact the changes in their thermal stability which was measured by TGA. Based on DMTA results we observed changes in the viscoelastic behavior of bio-TPUs. The DSC analysis revealed decreasing in glass transition temperature and melting temperature of hard segments. In general, obtained materials were characterized by good mechanical properties. The results confirmed the validity of undertaken research problem related to obtaining bio-TPUs consist of bio-based hard building blocks. The application of partially bio-based diisocyanate mixtures and bio-based chain extender for bio-TPU synthesis leads to sustainable chemistry. Therefore the total level of “green carbons” increases with the increase of bio-based diisocyanate content in the bio-TPU structure. Obtained results constitute promising data for further works related to the preparation of fully bio-based thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers and development in the field of bio-based polymeric materials.

scholarly journals Highly exfoliated montmorillonite clay reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer:in situpreparation and efficient strengthening

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 8184-8196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingshui Xu ◽  
Lihua Cheng ◽  
Zhong Zhang ◽  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Cen Xiong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane ◽  
Montmorillonite Clay ◽  
Solution Polymerization ◽  
Polyurethane Elastomers ◽  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers ◽  
Mmt Clay ◽  
Polymerization Method

Highly exfoliated montmorillonite (MMT) clay reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers (TPUs) were prepared by anin situsolution polymerization method.

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