Synthesis and dielectric properties of polyarylene ether nitriles with high thermal stability and high mechanical strength

A series of polyarylene ether nitriles were synthesized by the nucleophilic aromatic substitution polymerization of 2, 6-dichlorobenzonitrile with various bisphenol monomers. Owing to the different structural units, the derived copolymers showed different glass transition temperatures in the range of 166-260 degrees C. Moreover, they all showed good film-forming properties and high mechanical strength ranging from 75 MPa to 117 MPa, and also exhibited high thermal stability with the 5% weight loss temperatures ranging from 373 degrees C to 498 degrees C. Furthermore, both the dielectric constant and dielectric loss were found to be relatively stable with respect to temperature before the turning point temperature, which is very near to the glass transition temperature. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.