Study of kinetics of thermal degradation and to determine the activation energies of polyamides based on s-triazine

Abstract

A series of ten polyamides was prepared by the high-temperature polycondensation of 4,6-bis(N-(4-(benzoylchloride)amino))-2-(N-phenyl- piperazin-1-yl)-1,3,5-triazine with different aromatic and aliphatic diamines. The synthesized polyamides were analyzed by physico-chemical properties such as solubility, density, viscosity etc. The structure of prepared polyamides was evaluated by 1H NMR and FTIR spectrum. Thermogravimetric analysis used to study the kinetics of thermal degradation of some synthesized polyamides. Broido, Horowitz & Metzger, Coats Redfern and Chan et al. models were applied to respective thermograms to determine the activation energy (Ea). Activation energy data shows that the polyamides obtained from aromatic diamine has greater stability than the polyamides obtained from aliphatic amine.