Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym12092165
Keywords
soybean oil; rubber seed oil; wilsoniana seed oil; epoxy acrylate; UV-curable coatings
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31822009, 31770615]
- Fundamental Research Funds of CAF [CAFYBB2020QA005, CAFYBB2017QB006]
- Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province [17KJB140017]
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Novel oil-based epoxy acrylate (EA)-like prepolymers were synthesized via the ring-opening reaction of epoxidized plant oils with a new unsaturated carboxyl acid precursor (MAAMA) synthesized by reacting maleic anhydride (MA) with methallyl alcohol (MAA). Since the employed epoxidized oils including epoxidized soybean oil (ESO), epoxidized rubber seed oil (ERSO), and epoxidized wilsoniana seed oil (EWSO) possessed epoxy values of 7.34-4.38%, the obtained epoxy acrylate (EA)-like prepolymers (MMESO, MMERSO, and MMEWSO) indicated a C=C functionality of 7.81-4.40 per triglyceride. Furthermore, effects of the C=C functionality and the addition of hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) diluent on the ultimate properties of the resulting UV-cured EA-like materials were investigated and compared with those of commercially available acrylated ESO (AESO) resins. As the C=C functionality increased, the storage modulus at 25 degrees C (E'(25)), glass transition temperature (T-g), 5% weight-loss temperature (T-5), tensile strength and modulus (sigma and E), and hardness of the coating for both the pure EA and EA/HEMA resins increased significantly as well. These properties indicated similar trends when comparing the EA materials with 30% of HEMA with those pure EA materials. Specially, although ERSO had a clearly lower epoxy value that ESO, both the UV-cured pure MMERSO and MMERSO/HEMA materials showed much better E'(25), T-g, sigma, and E than their AESO counterparts, indicating that the MAAMA modification of epoxidized plant oils was much more effective than the modification of acrylic acid to achieve high-performance oil-based epoxy acrylate resins.
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