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Chimenti RV, Lehman-Chong AM, Sepcic AM, Engelhardt JD, Carriere JT, Bensley KA, Markashevsky A, Tu J, Stanzione JF, Lofland SE. Method for determining resin cure kinetics with low-frequency Raman spectroscopy. Analyst 2023; 148:5698-5706. [PMID: 37823883 DOI: 10.1039/d3an01099f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
Abstract
Characterizing resin extent of cure kinetics is critical to understanding the structure-property-processing relationships of polymers. The disorder band present in the low-frequency region of the Raman spectrum is directly related to conformational entropy and the modulus of amorphous materials, both of which change as the resin polymerizes. Normalizing the disorder band to its shoulder (∼85 cm-1) provides structural conversion kinetics, which we can directly correlate to chemical conversion kinetics for methacrylate and epoxy-amine based resin systems. In addition to fitting both the structural and chemical conversion data to a phenomenological kinetic rate equation, we also demonstrate a relationship between the chemical and structural kinetics which appears to relate to the softness of the material. Lastly, we use the method to investigate a methacrylate/epoxy interpenetrating polymer network resin system. We find that the structural and chemical conversions occur simultaneously during the formation of the primary (methacrylate) network, but there is a lag between the two during the formation of the secondary (epoxy-amine) network.
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Affiliation(s)
- Robert V Chimenti
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA.
- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI), Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI), Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
| | - Jamison D Engelhardt
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA.
- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI), Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
| | - James T Carriere
- Coherent Inc., 850 East Duarte Road, Monrovia, California 91016, USA
| | - Kayla A Bensley
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA.
| | - Adam Markashevsky
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI), Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI), Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA.
- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI), Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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Szymaszek P, Tomal W, Świergosz T, Kamińska-Borek I, Popielarz R, Ortyl J. Review of quantitative and qualitative methods for monitoring photopolymerization reactions. Polym Chem 2023. [DOI: 10.1039/d2py01538b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
Abstract
Authomatic in-situ monitoring and characterization of photopolymerization.
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