Abstract
The preparation of polyesteramides (PEAs) with regular block structure has long been a challenge, owing to the occurrence of the ester-amide exchange during the polymerization at high tempereture. In this work, we report a simple and green method to prepare polyamide 6 (PA6) based triblock PEA whose structure is poly(ε-caprolactone)-block-PA6-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL-b-PA6-b-PCL) using tetraphenyl tin as catalyst without solvent. The first segment PA6 was synthesized via cationic ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of ε-caprolactam (CPL), later, ROP of ε-caprolactone (CL) was involved to extend polycaprolactone (PCL) segments by using tetraphenyl tin as catalyst. By varying the proportion of CPL and CL, series PA6-based PEAs was prepared and characterized by gel permeation chromatography, 1H, DOSY, and 13C NMR. The results showed that PEA containing more proportion of CL presented a higher molecular weight with narrow polydisperse index. In particular, the lower water absorption and lower oligomers content infers that the PEA could have a prospective application in processing precision electronic devices.
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