Flexible all‐aromatic polyesterimide films with high glass transition temperatures |
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| Authors: | Qingbao Guan Ben Norder Theo J Dingemans |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | A series all‐aromatic poly(esterimide)s with different molar ratios of N‐(3′‐hydroxyphenyl)‐trimellitimide (IM) and 4‐hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA) (IM/HBA = 0.3/0.7 and 0.7/0.3) was prepared with the aim to design flexible high Tg films. Melt‐pressed films, either from high molecular weight polymer or cured phenylethynyl precursor oligomers, exhibit Tgs in the range of 200 °C to 242 °C and are brittle. After a thermal stretching procedure, the films became remarkably flexible and very easy to handle. In addition, the thermally stretched 3‐IM/7‐HBA and 7‐IM/3‐HBA films show tensile strengths of 108 MPa and 169 MPa, respectively. Thermal treatment increased the Tg of 3‐IM/7‐HBA from 205 °C to 248 °C, whereas the Tg of 7‐IM/3‐HBA increased from 230 °C to 260 °C. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017 , 133, 44774. |
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| Keywords: | aromatic thermoset polyesters mechanical properties thermal properties |
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