Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 884.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20200552

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Studies on Viscosity and Chemical Structure Changes in Polycarbonate Melts under Nitrogen Protection

JIANG Lei, YAN Shengdi, LIN Yu, WU Guozhang()   

  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Material,School of Materials Science and Engineering,East China University of Science and Technology,Shanghai 200237,China
  • Received:2020-08-11 Online:2021-03-10 Published:2021-03-08
  • Contact: WU Guozhang E-mail:wgz@ecust.edu.cn

Abstract:

Bisphenol A polycarbonate(PC) tends to degrade during high-temperature processing, resultting in yellowing and a gradual decrease in viscosity. Here, we report that some kinds of PC melts have a viscosity increase effect under N2 protection. Seven grades of PCs were used to check the change in melt viscosity under high temperature in N2 by means of dynamic rheological measurements, and their evolutions in molecular structure were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(NMR). Results show that, unlike PCs synthetized by phosgene method where the viscosity of PC melts decreases firstly and later increases slowly, PCs synthetized by transesterification method present an increase in melt viscosity and melt strength with annealing time and exhibit serious shear thinning effect. Molecular structure characterization confirms that PC molecular chains are branched and cross-linked under anaerobic conditions, thus forming a high molecular weight gel. The gelation speed of PCs synthetized by transesterification method is higher than that of PCs synthetized by phosgene method, resulting in higher shear viscosity and melt strength in the low frequency region. We propose that the terminal hydroxyl content may be the main factor causing the difference in gelation of different PCs.

Key words: Polycarbonate, Melt viscosity increase, Rheological measurement, Gelation

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