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ACS OMEGA
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 932-939Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02766
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- Eastman Center of Excellence at NC State University
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The sol-gel transition of a series of polyester polyol resins possessing varied secondary hydroxyl content and reacted with a polymerized aliphatic isocyanate cross-linking agent is studied to elucidate the effect of molecular architecture on cure behavior. Dynamic rheology is utilized in conjunction with time-resolved variable-temperature Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy to examine the relationship between chemical conversion and microstructural evolution as functions of both time and temperature. The onset of a percolated microstructure is identified for all resins, and apparent activation energies extracted from Arrhenius analyses of gelation and average reaction kinetics are found to depend on the secondary hydroxyl content in the polyester polyols. The similarity between these two activation energies is explored. Gel point suppression is observed in all the resin systems examined, resulting in significant deviations from the classical gelation theory of Flory and Stockmayer. The magnitude of these deviations depends on secondary hydroxyl content, and a qualitative model is proposed to explain the observed phenomena, which are consistent with results previously reported in the literature.
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