Article: Thermoset materials characterization by thermal desorption or pyrolysis based gas chromatography-mass spectrometry methods
Polymer degradation and stability. 2020 Apr., v. 174
2020
Abstract: Thermoset materials characterization is often limited to solid state analytical techniques such as IR, NMR, DSC, TGA and mechanical testing. Alternatively, their off-gassing behavior can also be evaluated using GC based techniques such as TD-GC-MS, ... ...
| Abstract | Thermoset materials characterization is often limited to solid state analytical techniques such as IR, NMR, DSC, TGA and mechanical testing. Alternatively, their off-gassing behavior can also be evaluated using GC based techniques such as TD-GC-MS, allowing this method to be applied to thermoset materials analyses such as identification, aging characterization, and formulation optimization. As an overview, common thermoset materials were evaluated by analyzing their gaseous degradation products via TGA-based pyrolysis and subsequent TD-GC-MS for the identification of representative volatile signatures. It is thereby possible to distinguish different classes of phenolic materials or cured epoxy resins, as well as their amine or anhydride curatives. Additionally, this method enabled quantification of a volatile fragment (bisphenol A, BPA) which is associated with oxidation of epoxy/amine thermoset materials. The amount of evolved BPA increased linearly with aging time and this trend exhibits linear Arrhenius behavior over the temperature range (80–125 °C) studied, in agreement with oxidation sensitivies based on oxygen consumption data. Further, TD-GC-MS was used to explore how off-gassing of residual anhydride curative from an epoxy/anhydride material depends on formulation stoichiometry. Even in formulations that theoretically contained enough epoxy to consume all anhydride (1:1 stoichiometry), an imperfect final cure state resulted in residual anhydride which could evolve from the material. For such materials, a slightly epoxy-rich formulation is required to ensure that the material contains no residual unreacted anhydride. Analysis of volatiles generated by thermal exposure is an attractive characterization approach enabling compositional analysis as well as complementary diagnostics for materials degradation. |
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| Keywords | anhydrides ; bisphenol A ; desorption ; diagnostic techniques ; differential scanning calorimetry ; epoxides ; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ; mechanical testing ; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ; oxidation ; oxygen consumption ; pyrolysis ; resins ; stoichiometry ; temperature ; thermogravimetry |
| Language | English |
| Dates of publication | 2020-04 |
| Publishing place | Elsevier Ltd |
| Document type | Article |
| ZDB-ID | 1502217-1 |
| ISSN | 0141-3910 |
| ISSN | 0141-3910 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2019.109032 |
| Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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