Polyethers—polymers with the structural element (R'‐O‐R)n in their backbone—are an old class of polymers which were already used at the time of the ancient Egyptians. However, still today these materials are highly important with applications in all areas of our life, reaching from the automotive and paper industry to cosmetics and biomedical applications. In this Review, different aliphatic polyethers like poly(epoxide)s, poly(oxetane)s, and poly(tetrahydrofuran) are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the history, the polymerization techniques (industrially and in academia), the properties, the applications as well as recent developments of these materials.
Thermogravimetry (TG) was employed to study the thermal degradation kinetics of poly(etherketone/sulfone)ethylimide (PEK-IE and PES-IE). The corresponding decomposition activation energies and reaction orders were obtained and the comparison was made with their parent polymerspoly(ether-ketone/sulfone) with Cardo group (PEK-C and PES-C). The results show that the degradation activation energies of PEK-IE and PES-IE were lower than that of PEK-C and PES-C; and two stages of the degradation process were found for all the four polymers. For PEK-IE and PES-IE, the activation energies in the first decomposition stage are much lower than that in the second stage and the two stages can be taken as slow induction and fast degradation, whereas for PEK-C and PES-C the activation energies in the first decomposition stage are larger than that in the second stage, and the two stages can both be taken as two fast degradation stages. The decomposition mechanism of the two stages was also speculated.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
Macromolecule/laponite nanomaterials were
studied by DSC and X-ray diffraction techniques. The matrices are poly(ethylene)
glycols at various molecular masses and poly(ethylene oxides)-poly(propylene
oxides)-poly(ethylene oxides) tri-block copolymers. The latter were tuned
by modulating the molecular masses, at constant hydrophilic/hydrophobic ratio,
and the hydrophilicity. For all the investigated systems, the enthalpy of
melting (ΔHm)
is nearly constant up to a given composition thereafter it increases monotonically
reaching the value of the pure macromolecule. We proposed a model to interpret
the DSC data.
Briefly, it was invoked a mechanism of interaction
following which some segments of the adsorbed macromolecule are anchored to
the laponite (RD) particles and the remaining segments are radiating away
from the surface. The portion of the macromolecule in contact with RD does
not contribute to ΔHm
whereas that radiating away from the clay does. Once that the RD surface is
saturated, the excess of the macromolecule behaves like the pure one. The
proposed model allowed to compute successfully the ΔHm
values. The X-ray diffraction experiments ruled out the polymer intercalation
between the silicate sheets. 相似文献
Aligned poly(L-lactide) (PLLA)/poly(?-caprolactone) (PCL)/poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG) fibrous membranes were fabricated by electrospinning. Their morphology, thermal stability, mechanical properties, hydrophilic properties and in vitro degradation behaviors were investigated. With increasing the content of PEG, the PLLA/PCL/PEG blend fibers become thinner due to the increment in solution conductivity and decrease in solution viscosity. The thermal stability, hydrophilic properties, the tensile strength and elongation-at-break of PLLA/PCL/PEG blend fibrous membranes were improved, but porosity were decreased with the content of PEG changing from 10 wt% to 30 wt%. Furthermore, the incorporation of PEG enhanced the degradation of the PLLA/PCL/PEG fibrous membranes due to the better hydrophilic properties. In addition, the PLLA/PCL/PEG fibrous membranes have no toxic effect on proliferation of adipose-derived stem cells. 相似文献
The preparation of poly(4-oxy-1,4-phenylenesulfonyl-4,4′-biphenylene-4-sulfonylphenylene) (PBP) has been accomplished by the base mediated, polycondensation reaction between two biphenyl containing monomers. The bisphenol, 4,4′-bis[(4-hydroxyphenyl) sulfonyl]biphenyl (HSB), was reacted with 4,4′-bis[(4-chlorophenyl)sulfonyl]-biphenyl (CSB) in tetramethylene sulfone solvent. The highest mechanical properties and glass transition temperature was observed for polymer PBP with a reduced viscosity around 1.0 dL/g. Consequently, the current synthesis route provides polymer with higher properties than other historical preparative routes. Blends of PBP with a different poly(ether sulfone) were miscible based on the observance of a single glass transition temperature. The Tgs of the polymer blends exhibited an unusual positive deviation from the weighted linear averages of the components. 相似文献
A synthetical equation is proposed to characterize the essential features of the inverse "S" type curve on the oasis of summing-up simulation approach of "S" type curve.The two physical variables in the model obtained are discussed and the detailed method used to determine the parameters is given.The model is then presented to describe the crystallization of poly(caryleher ether ketone) (PEEK) and thermal decomposition of poly (amide-imide) (PAl) respectively.It is found that some thermal characteristic parameters can be well estimated from the model simulated in computer. 相似文献