The unsaturated polyester/silica hybrids have been synthesized via sol-gel process and characterized in an effort to obtain a transparent hybrid material in this study, with emphasis on the effects of silica precursors and coupling agents. Chemical properties, thermal properties, and morphology of the hybrids were investigated by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
The results showed that silica particles can be dispersed homogeneously in the UP matrix; also, physical and chemical interactions at the interface between UP and silica can be enhanced by adding coupling agents into the system. From the thermal and chemical properties measurement, the decomposition temperature of UP backbone and the heat distortion temperature (HDT) of UP/Silica hybrid were higher than pure UP.
Solvent-resistance of UP/Silica hybrid was also enhanced by adding coupling agents. A model illustrating the chemical and physical interaction at the interface due to the addition of coupling agents is proposed to explain the resulted obtained.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0708105-153418 |
| Date | 08 July 2005 |
| Creators | Ka, Jhih-yao |
| Contributors | Jeh-Jeng Wang, Bing-Hwait Hwang, Tzu-Chien Hsu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0708105-153418 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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