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MATERIALS TODAY COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2021.102874
Keywords
Poly(vinyl chloride); Plasticizer; Succinate; Leaching
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [CRDPJ 543853-2019, RGPIN 05948-2019, RGPIN 06161-2018, 2016-03792]
- James McGill Chair program of McGill University
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Increasing branching can reduce the migration of plasticizers into mediums, with branched species showing superior migration resistance compared to non-branched ones. The quantitative H-1 NMR method is a more direct way to assess leaching for certain branched species, but efficiency may decrease with compounds containing four or more branches.
The influence of branching on plasticizer effectiveness and migration behavior of heptyl-succinate plasticizers blended with poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) was evaluated. An increase of branching led to a decrease in migration of the plasticizers into both hexanes and vegetable oil medias. Additionally, a quantitative H-1 NMR method was used to identify plasticizer concentration in the leachates and compared to a gravimetric standard test method. Overall, the quantitative H-1 NMR method proved to be a more direct method to assess leaching. In comparison to commercial plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and alternative plasticizer diheptyl succinate (DHPS), all of the branched species displayed superior migration resistance into hexanes (two to ten-fold). The glass transition temperatures and stress at break data indicated that the plasticizers comprised of up to three branches functioned as well as, or better than DEHP and DHPS. However, there was a decrease in plasticizer efficiency with compounds comprised of four or more branches.
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