High resolution solid‐state 13C‐NMR study of as‐cured and irradiated epoxy resins

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Abstract

Abstract This article presents the effects of strong ionizing radiations on the physico‐chemical modifications of aliphatic or aromatic amine‐cured epoxy resins based on diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA). Such epoxy resins have a considerable number of applications in the nuclear industrial field and are known to be very stable under moderate irradiation conditions. Using extensively high resolution solid‐state 13 C‐NMR spectroscopy we show that the aliphatic amine‐cured resin (DGEBA‐TETA) appears much more sensitive to gamma rays than the aromatic amine‐cured one (DGEBA‐DDM). On the one hand, qualitative analyses of the high resolution solid‐state 13 C‐NMR spectra of both epoxy resins, irradiated under similar conditions (8.5 MGy), reveal almost no change in the aromatic amine‐cured resin whereas new resonances are observed for the aliphatic amine‐cured resin. These new peaks were interpreted as the formation of new functional groups such as amides, acids and/or esters and to alkene groups probably formed in the aliphatic amine skeleton. On the other hand, molecular dynamics of these polymers are investigated by measuring the relaxation times, T CH , T 1ρH and T 1C , before and after irradiation. The study of relaxation data shows the formation, under irradiation, of a more rigid network, especially for the aliphatic amine‐cured system and confirms that aromatic amine‐cured resin [DGEBA‐4,4′‐diaminodiphenylmethane(DDM)] is much less affected by ionizing radiations than the aliphatic amine‐cured resin [DGEBA‐triethylenetetramine(TETA)]. Moreover, it has been shown that the molecular modifications generated by irradiation on the powder of the aliphatic‐amine‐cured resin appear to be homogeneously distributed inside the polymers as no phase separations can be deduced from the above analyses. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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