epoxy vitrimers with excellent malleability can be recycled
remolded and reshaped. However
most epoxy vitrimers usually shows high fragility and low mechanical properties
which significantly limits their practical applications. To address this issue
we used a carboxyl terminated hyperbranched polymer
Hyper C102
to simultaneously toughen and reinforce a class of vitrimers based on glutaric acid crosslinked bisphenol F epoxy resin (BPF)
in which 1-methylimidazole was used as catalyst to endow the system with dynamic exchange properties. Fourier transform (FTIR) and swelling experiments confirmed the formation of covalent crosslinking network in the epoxy vitrimers. DSC and DMA were used to study the dynamic mechanical properties and the rate of transesterification reaction of the materials. The result shows that the crosslink density of the epoxy vitrimers decreases first and then increases with the increasing content of Hyper C102. Such phenomenon can be well explained by the cavitation theory. More intriguingly
the Hyper C102 modified epoxy vitrimers still show high efficiency of transesterification reaction at 180 °C. Their modulus can relax to 1/e of the initial modulus within 30 min
and to 10% of the initial modulus within 1 h. Meanwhile
the tensile strength and strain at break can be simultaneously improved upon the introduction of Hyper C102. Compared with Hyper0 which contains no hyperbranched polymer
the tensile strength and fracture energy of Hyper7.5 that contains 7.5 wt% Hyper C102 is improved by 136% (from 28 MPa to 66 MPa) and 504% (from 280 kJ/m
3
to 1410 kJ/m
3
)
respectively. Such significant and simultaneous improvement in both tensile strength and toughness has not been realized in previous studies. Moreover
the epoxy vitrimers manifest decent self-repairing and recyclable properties after mechanical damage. These results fully demonstrate that the addition of the carboxyl terminated hyperbranched polymer can not only maintain the dynamic transesterification
but also significantly improve the mechanical properties of epoxy vitrimers.
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