Associative behavior of polyimide/cyclohexanone solutions |
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Authors: | Hongxiang Chen Wei Liu Mei Hong Ensong Zhang Xuemin Dai Quan Chen Wenke Yang Yanhu Xue Xuepeng Qiu Xiangling Ji |
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Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022 People''s Republic of China.; University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 People''s Republic of China ; Laboratory of Polymer Composites and Engineering, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022 People''s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | Our previous work has demonstrated that soluble polyimide with relatively weak interaction can be transformed from neutral polymer to associative polymer by increasing molecular weight. Thus, it is necessary to find another way to vary the relatively weak interaction strength, i.e. variation of solvent quality. Herein, viscoelastic behaviors are examined for 2,2-bis(3,4-dicarboxy-phenyl) hexafluoropropane dianhydride (6FDA)-2,2′-bis(trifluoromethyl)-4,4′-diam (TFDB) polyimide (PI), with a relatively low molecular weight (Mw) of 88 000 g mol−1, dissolved in cyclohexanone (CYC). The scaling relationship between viscosity (η0–ηs) and volume fraction is in good agreement with the associative polymer theory proposed by Rubinstein and Semenov. Oscillatory rheological results indicate that the PI solution tends to become a gel with increased volume fraction. The synchrotron radiation small-angle X-ray scattering results imply the existence of dense aggregates in the concentrated PI/CYC solutions. Shear thickening and thinning behaviors are observed in the solutions, and the shear thickening behavior of polyimide solution has not been reported in literature. Their mechanisms are studied by conducting dynamic and steady rheological experiments. Thus, enhancing the relatively weak interaction strength can also make the low Mw polyimide show associative polymer behavior. This work can help us to gain deep insight into polyimide solution properties from dilute to semidilute entangled solutions, and will guide the preparation of polyimide solutions for different processing.Enhancing the relatively weak interaction strength through varying the solvent quality can transform PI from a neutral polymer to an associative polymer. |
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