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Microphase Separation of Bulk and Ultrathin Films of Polyurethane Elastomers

  1. Mutsuhisa Furukawa1,*,
  2. Ken Kojio2,
  3. So Kugumiya1,
  4. Yusuke Uchiba1,
  5. Yoshitaka Mitsui1

Article first published online: 11 JUL 2008

DOI: 10.1002/masy.200850702

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Macromolecular Symposia

Macromolecular Symposia

Special Issue: Nanostructured Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites

Volume 267, Issue 1, pages 9–15, June 2008

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Furukawa, M., Kojio, K., Kugumiya, S., Uchiba, Y. and Mitsui, Y. (2008), Microphase Separation of Bulk and Ultrathin Films of Polyurethane Elastomers. Macromol. Symp., 267: 9–15. doi: 10.1002/masy.200850702

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  1. 1

    Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan

  2. 2

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan

*Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.

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  1. Issue published online: 11 JUL 2008
  2. Article first published online: 11 JUL 2008

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Keywords:

  • AFM;
  • DSC;
  • FT-IR;
  • microstructure;
  • polyurethanes

Abstract

Surmmary: Polyurethane elastomers (PUEs) were synthesized with poly(oxytetramethylene) glycol (PTMG), 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and 1,4-butanediol (BD)/1,1,1-trimethylol propane (TMP) by a prepolymer method. The degree of microphase separation of bulk and ultrathin films for these PUEs was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). In the bulk films, FT-IR and DSC measurements revealed that the degree of micro-phase separation strengthened with increasing BD content. AFM observation of the BD-PUE showed hard segment domains surrounded by a soft segment matrix. The domains ranged in size from 10-20 nm, while BD/TMP- and TMP PUEs did not have clear domains. On the other hand, AFM observation was carried out on thin films (200 mm in thickness) and ultrathin films (approximately 8-5 nm) prepared by spin-coating the different concentrations of PUE solutions. The microphase separated strucuture under 10 nm in thickness showed marked decreases in the size of the microphase-separated domain.

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