화학공학소재연구정보센터
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.59, No.31, 14015-14024, 2020
Reprocessable Triple-Shape-Memory Liquid Crystalline Polyester Amide with Ultrahigh Thermal Resistance
It is still an enormous challenge to develop reprocessable polymers with ultrahigh thermal resistance and multiple-shape-memory behavior through a facile strategy. Herein, a new phenylethynyl-terminated all-aromatic liquid crystalline polyester amide (RLCP) with good processability was synthesized using six allaromatic monomers and 4,4'-diacetamido-diphenyl sulfide as reactants and then a unique thermosetting liquid crystalline polymer (cured RLCP) with high thermal resistance and versatility was prepared through curing RLCP. Cured RLCP not only shows reprocessability and triple-shape-memory behavior but also has ultrahigh thermal resistance. Its initial thermal decomposition temperature (T-di = 457.1 degrees C) and glass-transition temperature (T-g = 224, 340 degrees C) are the highest among all reprocessable thermosetting polymers containing S-S bonds reported so far. The reversible dynamic exchange of S-S bonds and double-glass-transition behavior are the key reasons that endow cured RLCP with good reprocessability and triple-shape-memory behavior.