Abstract
AbstractToughening thermo‐setting resins with both high impact strength and tensile strength is a challenging issue. In this study, a novel cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres for toughening epoxy resin were prepared by self‐emulsification method with hexamethylene diisocyanate trimer (HDI trimer) and diethylene triamine (DETA) as the crosslinkers. The structure, morphology and particle size of cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres were investigated by infrared spectroscopy, laser particle size analyzer and scanning electron microscopy. Results showed that the prepared cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres showed spherical shape and had the size in the range from 40 to 258 nm. The application of cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres in toughing epoxy resin was investigated. The results showed that cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres can be uniformly dispersed in epoxy resin and no obvious aggregation phenomenon was observed. And the tensile strength and impact strength of epoxy resin can be increased simultaneously when the cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres were used in toughening epoxy resin. With the increase of the amount of polyurethane nano spheres in epoxy resin, both the tensile strength and impact strength of epoxy resin had the trend of first increase and then decrease. The amount of HDI trimer in the microspheres had a great impact on their toughening effect on epoxy resin. When the cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres contained HDI trimer content of 12 wt% and the amount of the nano spheres in epoxy resin was 8 wt%, the impact strength of the epoxy resin can reach as high as 23 kJ/m2, which was 4.33 times that of pristine epoxy resin. And the tensile strength of toughened epoxy resin was 50.7 MPa, which was at same level of that of pristine epoxy resin. The results of this study indicate that the cross‐linked polyurethane nano spheres have a great potential in toughening thermo setting resins, such as epoxy resin.
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