Crosslinked Fluorinated Poly(arylene ether)s with POSS: Synthesis and Conversion to High-Performance Polymers

Yashu He; Jingting Wang; Igor S Sirotin; Vyacheslav V Kireev; Jianxin Mu

doi:10.3390/polym13203489

Crosslinked Fluorinated Poly(arylene ether)s with POSS: Synthesis and Conversion to High-Performance Polymers

Polymers (Basel). 2021 Oct 11;13(20):3489. doi: 10.3390/polym13203489.

Authors

Yashu He¹, Jingting Wang¹, Igor S Sirotin², Vyacheslav V Kireev², Jianxin Mu¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of High Performance Plastics, Ministry of Education, National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthesis Technology of High Performance Polymer, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China.
² Faculty of Petrochemistry and Polymer Materials, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Miusskaya sq. 9, 125047 Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

This study reports on a series of crosslinked poly(arylene ether)s with POSS in the main chain. The fluorinated and terminated poly(arylene ether)s were first synthesized by the nucleophilic reaction of diphenol POSS and decafluorodiphenyl monomers, including decafluorobiphenyl, decaflurobenzophenone, and decafluorodiphenyl sulfone. They were then reacted with 3-hydroxyphenyl acetylene to produce phenylacetylene-terminated poly(arylene ether)s. The polymers were of excellent processability. When heated to a high temperature, the polymers converted into a crosslinked network, exhibiting a low range of dielectric constant from 2.17 to 2.58 at 1 HMz, strong resistance against chemical solutions, low dielectric losses, and good thermal and hydrophobic properties.

Keywords: POSS; crosslinked poly(arylene ether)s; high-performance polymers.