Bulk-thermal imidization

A great deal of literature attention has been devoted to polymers in this section as thermally stable polymers (B-80MI11101). While some very elegant syntheses have been conducted, the resulting polymers have been, for the most part, quite intractable materials not conducive to extensive screening for a variety of applications. Thus, aside from their bulk thermal performance, little else besides the conditions of synthesis is known about most of the polymers shown. Three notable exceptions about which considerable characterization and product information are available are poly(imides), poly(benzimidazoles) and poly(quinoxalines), and a short discussion is included concerning properties and applications of these polymers. 

Bott RH, Summers JD, Arnold CA, Blankenship CP Jr, Taylor L T, Ward TC, McGrath JE (1988) Poly(imide siloxane) segmented copolymer structural adhesives prepared by bulk and solution thermal imidization. SAMPE J 24(4) 7... 

In contrast, the thermal polymerization of the bulk m gomer gave only the imide homopolymer, XV, as previously shown. The results for the 3-lactam polymerization are collected in Table 4. 

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