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Improving Thermal Performance of High Internal Phase Emulsion Polymerized Foams with Maleimide Based Monomers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
The influence of three N-substituted maleimides on the thermal performance of high internal phase emulsion (HIPE) polymerized foams were investigated. N-propylmaleimide, Nbutylmaleimide, and N-cyclohexylmaleimide were copolymerized with styrene and crosslinked with either divinylbenzene or Bis(3-ethyl-5-methyl-4-maleimide-phenyl)methane in a HIPE polymerization process. All maleimide modifiers produced increases in the foam glass transition temperature (Tg) as a function of the maleimide concentration. The degree of Tg improvement was strongly dependent on the N-substituted maleimide used during processing.
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