Simulating local mobility and mechanical properties of thermostable polyimides with different dianhydride fragments
2018
Nazarychev, Victor M. | Dobrovskiy, Alexey Yu | Larin, Sergey V. | Lyulin, Alexey V. | Lyulin, Sergey V.
The dynamic and mechanical properties of the three thermoplastic polyimides—crystallizable polyimide BPDA‐P3 and amorphous polyimides ODPA‐P3 and aBPDA‐P3—have been simulated using the atomistic molecular dynamics technique. The three simulated polyimides differ in the chemical structure of their corresponding dianhydride fragments. Analyzing the local orientational mobility of different phenylene rings, it has been established that the increase of the glass‐transition temperature (Tg) in the ordered set TgaBPDA−P3>TgBPDA−P3>TgODPA−P3 is caused by the slowing down of the phthalimide rings relaxation in the corresponding dianhydride fragments. It has been observed that rather poor mechanical characteristics upon aBPDA‐P3 stretching in the strain‐hardening regime are also due to the low orientational mobility of the phthalimide rings. The correlation between the dynamic fragility and the polyimides strain‐hardening moduli has been observed; the increase of the dynamic fragility leads to the increase of the strain‐hardening modulus. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2018, 56, 375–382
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