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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 131, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.40965
Keywords
elastomers; polyurethanes; thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
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- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology [YBKT15-02]
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Energetic thermoplastic elastomers (ETPEs) are futuristic binders for propellant/explosive formulations. Poly(glycidyl nitrate) (PGN)- based ETPEs have excellent performance, including a high energy and high oxygen content. PGN-based ETPEs were synthesized on PGN as a soft segment and hexamethylene diisocyanate extended 1,4-butanediol as a hard segment by a prepolymerization method. The thermal behavior of the PGN- based ETPEs was investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and derivative thermogravimetry. A fitting strategy was adopted to study every stage of decomposition. The results show that the ETPEs had four main decomposition processes, and the peaks of each stage were at 212, 262, 322, and 414 degrees C. The gas products were tested by TGA/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy/mass spectrometry, and the main gas products of the samples were N2O, CH2O, C2H4O, and CO2. The previous results indicate the proposed mechanism of thermal decomposition. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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