Title
Adamantane-Containing Polymers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Department
Polymers and High Performance Materials
Abstract
Adamantane is a rigid ring system comprised of three fused chair conformation cyclohexane rings. Its excellent thermal stability, bulkiness, and tetrahedral geometry lead to improved physical properties such as stiffness, glass transition temperature (Tg), and solubility. Star polymers include polyaramids and polybenzoxazoles based on adamantane and biadamantane. All hydrocarbon three-dimensional networks use acetylene, phenylacetylene, or diphenylacetylene groups attached at the bridgehead positions with thermal polymerization or nickel catalyzed reactions of iodophenyl groups attached directly to the bridgehead positions. Pendent adamantane groups were incorporated into acrylates, phenolics, poly(phenylenes), and poly(ether ether ketones). Each type shows a large increase in Tg and thermal properties over the linear, unsubstituted polymer.
Publication Title
ACS Symposium Series
Volume
624
First Page
197
Last Page
207
Recommended Citation
Mathias, L. J.,
Jensen, J. J.,
Reichert, V. T.,
Lewis, C. M.,
Tullos, G. L.
(1996). Adamantane-Containing Polymers. ACS Symposium Series, 624, 197-207.
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