Carboxyl terminated butadiene acrylonitrile

CTBN type elastomers (carboxyl-terminated butadiene acrylonitrile) used to toughen this epoxy system. The Tg peak of the elastomer (-30°Q was shifted to higher temperatures suggesting that electron interaction resulted in crosslinking. The fact that the Tg peak disappeared at 10 rads suggests that crosslinking in the elastomer was extensive at high dose levels. 

CTBN Carboxyl-Terminated Butadiene Acrylonitrile Rubber... 

Piperidine and carboxyl terminated butadiene acrylonitrile copolymer (CTBN) at 75 °C. 

CTBN carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber DETA diethylenetriamine... 

Rubber was a carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer. Mean diameter of rubber particles =1.6 pm. Rubber concentration was 15 phr, giving volume fraction of 0.18 4 Containing vf (glass) = 0.1 rubber = 15 phr... 

It is obvious from these data that CTBN (the carboxyl terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer) is the most effective modifier, and therefore it was selected for further study. As the concentration of the elastomer was increased to levels up to 100 parts, the impact also increased. The data in Table II show that the room temperature impact of ERL-4221 increased from 40 inch-lbs to greater than 320 inch-lbs by adding 100 phr or 33 wt % of CTBN. At very low temperatures ( —160°F) the impact of the system modified with 60 parts, or 23 wt %, of CTBN was 120 inch-lbs. These impact improvements appear to be directly proportional to the concentration of the elastomer modifier. 

The carboxyl terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber, which is soluble initially in the liquid phase, precipitates out as a second phase during the crosslinking reaction of the epoxy. The cured specimens are... 

Carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer, mentioned above, was found to have 4-cyanopentanoic acid end-group originating from 4,4,7-azobis(4-cyanopentanoic acid) initiator [32],... 

Functionalized, liquid polybutadiene derivatives have also been developed as hybrid flexiblizers for epoxy resins. Carboxyl-terminated butadiene/acrylonitrile polymers, butadiene homopolymers, and maleic anhydride-amino acid grafted butadiene homopolymers have been used as flexibilizers to impart good low-temperature strength and water resistance to DGEBA-based epoxy adhesives. An epoxy system toughened by polybutadiene with maleic anhydride is claimed to provide a hydrophobic backbone, low viscosity, softness, and high tensile strength and adhesion (Table 7.10). 

FIGURE 8.6 Chemical structure of carboxyl-terminated butadiene acrylonitrile (CTBN). 

Fig. 13. TXT cure diagram temperature of cure vs. the times to phase separation (doud point), gelation and vitrification for a neat and two rubber-modified systems. of the neat system is also included. The systems studied were DER331/TMAB O, gelation , vitrificaticm modified with IS parts rubber per hundred parts epoxy 1) pr eacted carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile (CTBN) copolymer containing 17% acrylonitrile (K-293, Spencer Kellog Co.) A, phase separation , gelation , vitrification, and 2) polytetramethylene oxide terminated with anmiatic amine (ODA2000, Polaroid Corp.) A. phase separation O, gelation O, vitrification. (DER331/TMAB/ K-293 data from Ref. )...

Additives. Acrylonitrile-butadiene rubbers were provided by BFGood-rich (Brecksville, OH). The amino-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile (ATBN) rubber was obtained by reacting carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile (CTBN) with an excess diamine, Unilink 4200 (from UOP, El Dorado Hills, CA) consequently, free diamine molecules always remained in the rubber. The rubbers have almost the same molar mass but different end groups, which have been characterized in a previous work (20). Their structures are given in Chart I, and they are described in Table I. The two poly(ether sulfone)s (PESs) (Victrex, from ICI, United Kingdom) used in this study are described in Table II. 

CTBN Carboxyl terminated butadiene acrylonitrile rubber... 

Carboxyl-Terminated Butadiene-Acrylonitrile-Modifl Epoxy Resin and Its Graphite Fiber-Reinforced Composite... 

Fig. 13. Experimental CPC (A) and calculated binodal (broken curve) and spinodal (dotted curve) curves for a binary system composed of a DGEBA-based epoxy monomer (M = 479 gmol ) and a carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber (CTBN) (Reprinted from Polymer, 30, D. Verchere, H. Sautereau, J.P. Pascault, S.M. Mos-chiar, C.C. Riccardi, R.J.J. Williams, Miscibility of epoxy monomers with carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile random copolymers, 107 -115, Copyright (1989), with kind permission from Butterworth-Heinemann journals, Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington 0X5 1GB, UK)...

Synonyms Acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer, carboxyl-terminated Butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer carboxylated Butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer, carboxyl-terminated Carboxylated butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer CTBN... 

Bisphenol-F based, standard, undiluted, elastomer-modified resin (carboxyl-terminated butadiene acrylonitrile) Epon 58006 /Resolution 150,000-300,000 330-360... 

The rubber-toughening process has been one of the most successful methods for modifying polymer toughness. The incorporation of small amounts of rubber into polymer matrices has resulted in significantly improved fracture resistance (1). Particularly interesting improvements in the toughness of epoxies have been accomplished by the addition of carboxyl-terminated butadiene/acrylonitrile (CTBN) elastomers (2,3). 

Epoxy prepolymers with rubber CORI Carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile random copolymer Taha et al. 1997... 

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