Journal
CHINESE PHYSICS B
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac3cab
Keywords
polymer; molecular dynamic simulation; mechanical properties; thermodynamics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11772043]
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In this study, molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the thermo-mechanical properties of a family of thermosetting epoxy-amines. The results showed that the mechanical properties of thermosetting polymers are strongly influenced by the molecular structures of the cross-linker and network topological properties.
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are conducted to study the thermo-mechanical properties of a family of thermosetting epoxy-amines. The crosslinked epoxy resin EPON862 with a series of cross-linkers is built and simulated under the polymer consistent force field (PCFF). Three types of curing agents (rigidity1,3-phenylenediamine (1,3-P), 4,4-diaminodiphenylmethane (DDM), and phenol-formaldehyde-ethylenediamine (PFE)) with different numbers of active sites are selected in the simulations. We focus on the effects of the cross-linkers on thermo-mechanical properties such as density, glass transition temperature (T (g)), elastic constants, and strength. Our simulations show a significant increase in the T (g), Young's modulus and yield stress with the increase in the degree of conversion. The simulation results reveal that the mechanical properties of thermosetting polymers are strongly dependent on the molecular structures of the cross-linker and network topological properties, such as end-to-end distance, crosslinking density and degree of conversion.
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