Biobased urea nowadays attracts increasing attention as a biomass resource with giant potential,which benefits from the development of biobased ammonia and ecological sanitation system.Urea is an ideal feedstock for c...Biobased urea nowadays attracts increasing attention as a biomass resource with giant potential,which benefits from the development of biobased ammonia and ecological sanitation system.Urea is an ideal feedstock for chemical industry and developing new urea-based polymer materials can take advantage of the urea resource.In this work,a class of renewable linear polyesters,namely polyisocyanuratoesters(PICEs)were synthesized from a urea-based monomer bis(2-carbomethoxyethyl)isocyanurate and biobased aliphatic diols.Compared with conventional aliphatic polyesters,PICEs containing isocyanurate rings in the polymer chain backbone exhibit outstanding flame retardancy that both PICE-4(the number‘4’refers to the number of methylene in diols,e.g.4 for butylene and 6 for hexylene)and PICE-6 have high limiting oxygen index values over 30%.In the UL 94 tests,PICE-6 reaches V-1 rating;while V-2 is found for PICE-10.All PICEs exhibit similar pyrolysis behavior that the temperatures of 5%weight loss are around 320°C.PICEs are found to have glass transition among 20°C-45°C.No crystallization behavior is observed without annealing except for PICE-10,which can crystallize even at room temperature.展开更多
基金The authors are grateful for the financial supports of the National Science Foundation of China(21404040)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2015ZM053)the State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering(201538).
文摘Biobased urea nowadays attracts increasing attention as a biomass resource with giant potential,which benefits from the development of biobased ammonia and ecological sanitation system.Urea is an ideal feedstock for chemical industry and developing new urea-based polymer materials can take advantage of the urea resource.In this work,a class of renewable linear polyesters,namely polyisocyanuratoesters(PICEs)were synthesized from a urea-based monomer bis(2-carbomethoxyethyl)isocyanurate and biobased aliphatic diols.Compared with conventional aliphatic polyesters,PICEs containing isocyanurate rings in the polymer chain backbone exhibit outstanding flame retardancy that both PICE-4(the number‘4’refers to the number of methylene in diols,e.g.4 for butylene and 6 for hexylene)and PICE-6 have high limiting oxygen index values over 30%.In the UL 94 tests,PICE-6 reaches V-1 rating;while V-2 is found for PICE-10.All PICEs exhibit similar pyrolysis behavior that the temperatures of 5%weight loss are around 320°C.PICEs are found to have glass transition among 20°C-45°C.No crystallization behavior is observed without annealing except for PICE-10,which can crystallize even at room temperature.
