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Modification of poly(ethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate) with aliphatic polycarbonate diols: 1. Randomnized copolymers with significantly improved ductility and high CO2 barrier performance
writer:Hongzhou Xie, Linbo Wu*, Bo-Geng Li, Philippe Dubois*
keywords:Biobased polymers, Ductility, Toughening, Poly(ethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate), Polycarbonate diol
source:期刊
specific source:European Polymer Journal 134, 109856, 2020
Issue time:2020年

Poly(ethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate) (PEF) is a very promising biobased polymer possessing very high mechanical strength, rigidity and gas barrier performance. But its poor ductility and toughness may limit its applications. In this study, PEF-based copolymers with high intrinsic viscosity were successfully synthesized via melt polycondensation of dimethyl 2,5-furandicarboxylate (DMFD) and ethylene glycol in the presence of a copolycarbonate diol (PPeHC diol) as produced from 1,5-pentylene diol (PeDO), 1,6-hexylene diol (HDO) and dimethyl carbonate, and characterized with 1H NMR, 13C NMR, DSC, TGA, tensile, impact and gas barrier testing. The products were “randomnized” as a result of ester-carbonate exchange reaction occurring along melt polycondensation, and therefore became amorphous copolymers possessing composition-dependent physicomechanical properties which can be tunable from rigid-to-ductile thermoplastics to thermoplastic elastomers. Particularily, the copolymers with φPPeHC of 25 wt% and 30 wt% are thermoplastics possessing greatly improved ductility (elongation at break up to 194%) and CO2 barrier performance higher than poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET; BIFCO2 3.6–2.8), and retaining high tensile modulus (2.2–1.9 GPa) and yielding strength(69–58 MPa) comparable to the bottle-grade PET. In comparison, the copolymer with φPPeHC of 40 wt% behaves as a high performance thermoplastic elastomer with excellent gas barrier performance as well as high tensile strength (23 MPa).