Xia Yun-Yun, Yang Xing, Zhang Wei, Fu Yang, Cai Zhongzheng, Cao Peng, Zhu Jian-Bo
College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.
National Engineering Laboratory of Eco-Friendly Polymeric Materials (Sichuan), College of Chemistry, Sichuan University.
Chemistry. 2024 Sep 11;30(51):e202401727. doi: 10.1002/chem.202401727. Epub 2024 Aug 23.
The development of innovative synthetic strategies to create functional polycaprolactones is highly demanded for advanced material applications. In this contribution, we reported a facile synthetic strategy to prepare a class of CL-based monomers (R-TO) derived from epoxides. They readily polymerize via well-controlled ring-opening polymerization (ROP) to afford a series of polyesters P(R-TO) with high molecular weight (M up to 350 kDa). Sequential addition copolymerization of MTO and -lactide (-LA) allowed to access of a series of ABA triblock copolymers with composition-dependent mechanical properties. Notably, P(-LA)-b-P(MTO)-b-P(-LA) containing the amorphous P(MTO) segment as a soft midblock and crystalline P(-LA) domain as hard end block behaved as an excellent thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) with high elongation at break (1438±204 %), tensile strength (23.5±1.7 MPa), and outstanding elastic recovery (>88 %).
对于先进材料应用而言,开发创新的合成策略来制备功能性聚己内酯的需求十分迫切。在本论文中,我们报道了一种简便的合成策略,用于制备一类由环氧化物衍生而来的基于己内酯的单体(R-TO)。它们可通过可控的开环聚合(ROP)轻松聚合,得到一系列高分子量(M高达350 kDa)的聚酯P(R-TO)。MTO与丙交酯(-LA)的顺序加成共聚可得到一系列具有组成依赖性机械性能的ABA三嵌段共聚物。值得注意的是,含有无定形P(MTO)链段作为软中间嵌段和结晶P(-LA)域作为硬端嵌段的P(-LA)-b-P(MTO)-b-P(-LA)表现为一种优异的热塑性弹性体(TPE),具有高断裂伸长率(1438±204%)、拉伸强度(23.5±1.7 MPa)和出色的弹性回复率(>88%)。