A novel approach to processing high-performance polymers that exploits entropically driven ring-opening polymerization

Abderrazak Ben-Haida; Howard M. Colquhoun; Philip Hodge; John L. Stanford

doi:10.1002/marc.200500364

A novel approach to processing high-performance polymers that exploits entropically driven ring-opening polymerization

Abderrazak Ben-Haida, Howard M. Colquhoun, Philip Hodge, John L. Stanford

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Abstract

Blends of the poly(ether sulfone) derived from 4,4′-biphenol and 4,4′-dichlorodiphenylsulfone (Radel-R™) with its homologous macrocyclic oligomers show greatly lowered melt viscosities relative to that of the parent polymer, potentially enabling more facile production and fabrication of fiber-reinforced composite materials. The macrocycles can then undergo entropically driven ring-opening polymerization in situ. The required blends can be obtained easily in one step, by carrying out polycondensations at concentrations lower than those usually used for polymer synthesis. © 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1377-1382
Number of pages	5
Journal	Macromolecular rapid communications
Volume	26
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.200500364
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2005

Keywords

High performance polymers
Macrocycles
Reactive processing
Ring-opening polymerization

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A novel approach to processing high-performance polymers that exploits entropically driven ring-opening polymerization

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