Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-tn8tq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-01T09:35:43.524Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Copolymers derived from Silsesquioxanes or Carborane Building Blocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Gunjan Gadodia ,
Gregoire Cardoen ,
Yoan Simon ,
Hiroshi Abe  and
E. Bryan Coughlin
Gunjan Gadodia
Affiliation:
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 U.S.A.
Gregoire Cardoen
Affiliation:
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 U.S.A.
Yoan Simon
Affiliation:
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 U.S.A.
Hiroshi Abe
Affiliation:
Sekisui Integrated Research Inc. 2-2, Kamichoshi-cho, Kamitoba Minami-ku, Kyoto 601-8105 JAPAN
E. Bryan Coughlin
Affiliation:
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 U.S.A.
Get access

Abstract

To explore competitive or cooperative effects novel organic-inorganic hybrid copolymers are being prepared and studied. The use of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), a molecularly precise isotropic comonomer, is being utilized to take advantage of the inherent size scale of these particles, average diameters of 1-2 nm. The organic component selected for study in these hybrid systems are either semi-crystalline or amorphous polymers. The architectures of the hybrid copolymers range from random, to precise block copolymers, as well as telechelic and hemi-telechelic end-functionalized model compounds. The degree of POSS aggregation that occurs is found to be a function of thermal history, and processing conditions. Templating, or arresting, aggregation can be achieved using either crystalline organic polymer scaffolds in the bulk. The second inorganic comonomers for study has been constructed from icosahedral carboranes. Dicarbo-closo-decaboranes have been widely investigated for their thermal stability, chemical resistance, unique geometry, and the high cross-section for the capture of thermal neutrons. While carboranes have been widely incorporated into small molecules, metal complexes, and on a limited basis in polymer systems relatively little work exists relating their unique properties to systems with extended π-conjugation. Details of the syntheses, characterization and performance properties of both sets of hybrid systems will be discussed.

Keywords

polymerBSi
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1312: Symposium HH/II/JJ – Polymer-Based Materials and Composites—Synthesis, Assembly and Applications , 2011 , mrsf10-1312-jj01-03
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Waddon, A. J.; Coughlin, E. B. Chemistry of Materials 2003, 15, 4555–4561.Google Scholar
2. Pyun, J.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Wu, J.; Kim, G. M.; Chun, S. B.; Mather, P. T. Polymer 2003, 44, 2739–2750.Google Scholar
3. Mohajer, Y., Wilkes, G. L., Wang, I. C., McGrath, J. E. Polymer 1982, 23, 1523–1535.Google Scholar
4. Nojima, S. Kato, K., Yamamoto, S. Ashida, T. Macromolecules 1992, 25, 2237–2242.Google Scholar
5. Ryan, A. J., Hamley, I. W., Bras, W., Bates, F. S. Macromolecules 1996, 28, 3860–3868.Google Scholar
6. Hamley, I. W., Fairclough, J. P. A., Terril, N. J., Ryan, A. J., Lipic, P. M., Bates, F. S., Towns-Andrews, E. Macromolecules 1996, 29, 8835–8843.Google Scholar
7. Castillo, R. V., Muller, A. J., Lin, M., Chen, H., Jeng, U. Hillmyer Macromolecules 2008, 41, 6154–6164.Google Scholar
8. Rangarajan, P., Register, R. A., Fetters, L. J., Bras, W., Naylor, S., Ryan, A. J. Macromolecules 1995, 28, 4932–4938.Google Scholar
9. Shiomi, T., Takeshita, H., Kawaguchi, H., Nagai, M., Takenaka, K., Miya, M. Macromolecules 2002, 35, 8056–8065.Google Scholar
10. Chen, H-J., Wu, J-C., Lin, T-L., Lin, J. S. Macromolecules 2001, 34, 6936–6944.Google Scholar
11. Shiomi, T., Tsukada, H., Takeshita, H., Takenaka, K., Tezuka, Y. Polymer 2001, 42, 4991–5004.Google Scholar
12. Quiram, D. J., Register, R. A., Marchand, G. R. Macromolecules 1997, 30, 4551–4558.Google Scholar
13. Li, G. Z.; Wang, L. C.; Ni, H. L.; Pittman, C. U. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers 2001, 11, 123–154.Google Scholar