Study on Fire Behavior, Thermal Stability and Degradation Kinetics of Thiol-Ene with Poly(aminopropyl/phenyl)silsesquioxane

• Published in: Polymers Vol. 14; no. 6; p. 1142
• Main Author: Wang, Jiangbo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 12.03.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Activation energy; Cone calorimeters; Crosslinking; Curing; Enthalpy; Fire resistance; flame retardancy; Flame retardants; Glass substrates; Heat release rate; Heat resistance; kinetics; poly(aminopropyl/phenyl)silsesquioxane; Polymerization; Polymers; Thermal degradation; Thermal stability; Thermogravimetric analysis; thiol-ene; United States > US; activation energy; kinetics; flame retardancy; thiol-ene; poly(aminopropyl/phenyl)silsesquioxane
• ISSN: 2073-4360; 2073-4360
• DOI: 10.3390/polym14061142

In this article, the flame retardant poly(aminopropyl/phenyl)silsesquioxane (PA) was incorporated into thiol-ene (TE), to obtain a flame-retardant thiol-ene (FRTE) composite. The cone calorimeter (CONE) measurement results showed that, compared with neat TE, the peak of heat release rate (PHRR) and total heat release (THR) of FRTE have decreased by almost 23.7% and 14.5%, respectively. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) results further confirmed that the flame retardant PA could induce the initial thermal degradation of TE, and increased the amounts of residual char. Moreover, the activation energies of FRTE were calculated through the Kissinger and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa methods. Compared with the neat TE, the activation energies of FRTE were raised by the addition of PA. It indicated that the flame retardant PA promoted cross-linking reactions of TE, to form a compact char layer and retarded further the thermal degradation of the polymer matrix.