scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Epoxy Homopolymerization as a Tool to Tune the Thermo-Mechanical Properties and Fracture Toughness of Vitrimers

About
This article is published in Macromolecules.The article was published on 2021-09-28. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fracture toughness & Epoxy.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Closed-Loop Recyclable Fully Bio-Based Epoxy Vitrimers from Ferulic Acid-Derived Hyperbranched Epoxy Resin

TL;DR: In this paper , a ferulic acid-based hyperbranched epoxy resin (FEHBP) was synthesized to produce closed-loop recyclable and catalyst-free epoxy vitrimers without compromising its thermal and mechanical properties.
Journal ArticleDOI

Graphene functionalisations: Conserving vitrimer properties towards nanoparticles recovery using mild dissolution

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of graphitic nanoparticles on an epoxy vitrimer formulation and potential to recover those from the crosslinked structure by mild dissolution was explored, and an improvement of tensile mechanical properties was reported while remaining chemically crosslinked and achieving complete relaxation.
Journal ArticleDOI

Itaconic acid-based hyperbranched polymer toughened epoxy resins with rapid stress relaxation, superb solvent resistance and closed-loop recyclability

TL;DR: In this article , an itaconic acid-based hyperbranched epoxy vitrimer was proposed to achieve rapid stress relaxation, robust toughness, excellent solvent resistance and environmentally friendly recycling simultaneously.
Journal ArticleDOI

Interlaminar fracture toughness behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced polymer with epoxy-dicarboxylic acid vitrimer matrix

TL;DR: In this paper , two vitrimer laminates with epoxy:acid ratio of 1:0.5 and 1:1 (stoichiometric, C50/CF) were successfully fabricated by hand lay-up and hot press.
Journal ArticleDOI

Enriching an Exchangeable Network with One of Its Components: The Key to High-Tg Epoxy Vitrimers with Accelerated Relaxation

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors demonstrate that the generation of hydroxide groups, necessary for transesterification, exclusively relies on side reactions induced by protic impurities and water, and enrich the epoxy-anhydride network with one of its components, DHEBA (bisphenol A bis(2,3-dihydroxypropyl) ether), potentially available from hydroxylation of the starting epoxy monomer as well as from chemical recycling of the final vitrimer network.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed epoxy networks that can rearrange their topology by exchange reactions without depolymerization, and showed that they are insoluble and processable.
Journal ArticleDOI

Vitrimers: permanent organic networks with glass-like fluidity

TL;DR: This mini-review highlights the existing vitrimer systems in the period 2011–2015 with the main focus on their chemical origin.
Journal ArticleDOI

Metal-catalyzed transesterification for healing and assembling of thermosets.

TL;DR: Studies of model molecules confirmed that the healing kinetics is controlled by the transesterification reaction rate, and the possibility of varying the catalyst concentration brings control and flexibility of welding and assembling of epoxy thermosets that do not exist for thermoplastics.
Journal ArticleDOI

High-performance vitrimers from commodity thermoplastics through dioxaborolane metathesis

TL;DR: The metathesis of dioxaborolanes is reported, which is rapid and thermally robust, and used to prepare vitrimers from polymers as different as poly(methyl methacrylate), polystyrene, and high-density polyethylene that, although permanently cross-linked, can be processed multiple times by means of extrusion or injection molding.
Journal ArticleDOI

Catalytic Control of the Vitrimer Glass Transition

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the transition from liquid to solid is reversible and is, in fact, a glass transition, and they show how to tune the transesterification reaction rate and the broadness of the transition can be controlled at will in epoxy-based vitrimers.
Related Papers (5)