4 hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) as a starting material
two kinds of triblock copolymers were successfully synthesized by polymerization of
ε
-caprolactone (
ε
-CL) and styrene. Polycaprolactone-
b
-polybutadiene-
b
-polycaprolactone triblock copolymer (CLBCL) was synthesized
via
the ring-opening polymerization of
ε
-CL with stannous octanoate[Sn(Oct)
2
] as the catalyst and HTPB as the macroinitiator. The length of PCL segments was controlled by changing the reaction time based on the living property of the ring-opening polymerization. Besides
the reaction between HTPB and 2-bromoisobutyryl bromide yielded the Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) macroinitiator (BiB-PB-BiB)
which was used for the preparation of the polystyrene-
b
-polybutadiene-
b
-polystyrenetriblock copolymers (SBS)
via
the Activators Regenerated by Electron Transfer for ATRP (ARGET ATRP) of styrene. The ARGET ATRP reaction was controllable and the molecular weight distribution of the copolymers was narrow. The structure of these triblock copolymers was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (
1
H-NMR and
13
C-NMR)
gel permeation chromatography (GPC)
and their thermal properties were tested by thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). TGA analysis indicated that the thermal stability of the CLBCL triblock copolymers increased with the increase in PCL content in the copolymers. Only one thermal degradation stage was observed for the SBS triblock copolymers from the TGA curves and the thermal stability of copolymers was slightly better than HTPB precursors. In the DSC curves of CLBCL copolymers
the glass transition temperature at -106.0℃ for the PB segments and the melting temperature at 54.4℃ for the PCL segments were detected. The results of DSC analysis for the SBS triblock copolymers indicated that there were two glass transition temperatures at -104.1 and 102.4℃
Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadieneε-CaprolactoneStyreneMacroinitiatorRing-opening polymerization (ROP)Activators regenerated by electron transfer for atom transfer radical polymerization (ARGET ATRP)
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