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Carbon fibers prepared from tailored reversible‐addition‐fragmentation transfer copolymerization‐derived poly(acrylonitrile)‐ co ‐poly(methylmethacrylate)
- Source :
- Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. 52:1322-1333
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2014.
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Abstract
- Reversible-addition fragmentation-transfer (RAFT) polymerization of acrylonitrile (AN) was performed with 2-(2- cyano-2-propyl-dodecyl)trithiocarbonate as RAFT agent and azobis(isobutyronitrile) as initiator. Linear polyacrylonitrile (Mn 5 133,000 g/mol, PDI 5 1.34) was prepared within 7 h in 86% isolated yield. High-yield copolymerization with methyl methacrylate (MMA) was performed and copolymerization parameters were determined according to Kelen and T€ ud€ os at 90 � C in ethylene carbonate yielding rAN 5 0.2 and rMMA 5 0.42. The molecular weights, polydispersity indices (PDIs), and MMA content of the copolymer were adjusted in a way that precur- sor fibers could be prepared via wet spinning. These precursor fibers had round cross-sections and a dense morphology, showing tenacities of 40-50 cN/tex and elastic moduli of 900- 1000 cN/tex at a fineness of 1 dtex and an elongation of 13- 17%. Precursor fibers were oxidatively stabilized and then car- bonized at different temperatures. A maximum tensile strength of 2.5 GPa was reached at 1350 � C. Thermal analysis, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, wide-angle X-ray scatter- ing, scanning electron microscopy, and tensile testing were used to characterize the resulting carbon fibers. V C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2014, 52, 1322-1333
Details
- ISSN :
- 10990518 and 0887624X
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........59e26316d2d7766bd2b35073e6ff7b3c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.27121