Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-tnzcf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-15T05:29:12.172Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Hybrid Styryl-Based Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (Poss) Polymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

T. S. Haddad,
E. Choe and
J. D. Lichtenhan
T. S. Haddad
Affiliation:
Hughes STX, Phillips Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524
E. Choe
Affiliation:
Phillips Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524
J. D. Lichtenhan
Affiliation:
Phillips Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524
Get access

Abstract

We have taken a unique approach to the synthesis and study of hybrid organic/inorganic materials. Our method involves synthesizing nano-size inorganic P1R7Si8Ol2 clusters which contain seven inert “R” groups for solubility and only one functional “P” group for polymerization. This strategy permits the synthesis of melt processable, linear hybrid polymers containing pendent inorganic clusters and allows us to study the effect these clusters have on chain motions and polymer properties. The synthesis of styrene-based polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) macromers, their free radical homopolymerization and copolymerizations with varying amounts of 4-methylstyrene, and analysis of the effect of the pendent POSS group is presented. All of these polymers decompose under nitrogen between 365 and 400 °C, and the glass transitions for these materials vary from around 110 °C up to the decomposition point. Both Tdec and Tg increase with increasing POSS content. The shorter the spacer unit between the POSS group and the polymer chain the higher the Tg. Interestingly, a slight change in the inert “R” groups on the POSS cluster has a large effect on the glass transition indicating that POSS-POSS interactions have an effect on chain mobility.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 435: Symposium V – Better Ceramics Through Chemistry VII , 1996, 25
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1. Reviews and leading references for recent progress in hybrid materials are: (a) Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Composites, edited by Mark, J.E., Lee, C.Y-C. and Bianconi, P.A., (ACS Symposium Series 585, American Chemical Society: Washington DC 1995).(b) L. Mascia, Trends Polym. Sci. 3, 61 (1995). (c) C. Sanchez and F. Ribot, Nouv. J. Chem. 18, 1007 (1994).Google Scholar
2. The diameter swept out by a R8Si8O12 POSS molecule is approximately 15 A with an inner Si-Si diameter of 5.4 A. (a) Larsson, K., Kemi, Ark., 16, 203 (1960).(b) F.J. Feher and T.A. Budzichowski, J. Organomet. Chem. 373, 153 (1989). (c) T.P.E. Auf der Hyde, H.-B. Burgi, H. Burgy and K.W. Tornroos, Chimia, 45, 38 (1991)Google Scholar
3. (a) Lichtenhan, J.D., Vu, N.Q., Carter, J.A., Gilman, J.W. and Feher, F.J., Macromolecules, 26, 2141, (1993).(b) J.D. Lichtenhan, Comments Inorg. Chem. 17, 115 (1995). (c) T.S. Haddad and J.D. Lichtenhan, J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. 5, 237 (1995). (d) J.D. Lichtenhan, Y.A. Otonari and M.J. Carr, Macromolecules 28, 8435 (1995). (e) R. Mantz, P.F. Jones, K.P. Chaffee, J.D. Lichtenhan, J.W. Gilman, I. Ismail and M.J. Burmeister, Chem Mater. in press (1996).Google Scholar
4. (a) Feher, F.J., Newman, D.A. and Walzer, J.F., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 1741 (1989). (b) F.J. Feher, T.A. Budzichowski, R.L. Blanski, K.J. Weller and J.W. Ziller, Organometallics 10, 2526 (1991). (c)J.F. Brown Jr. and L.H. Vogt Jr. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 87, 4313 (1965).Google Scholar
5. Isolated yields were: 2a (97 %), 2b (95 %), 2c (78 %), 2d (87 %).Google Scholar
6.. For a discussion on elastomeric phase-separated triblock polymers see Odian, G. Principles of Polymerization (J. Wiley & Sons: New York, 1991) pp. 148–149, 426.Google Scholar