• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.185-192
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• 1998

Four kinds of polyamicacids(PAAs) were prepared by the condensation reaction of four diamines with different linkages, 3,3'-diaminodiphenyl sulfone(3,3'-$DDSO_2$), 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl sulfone(4,4'-$DDSO_2$), 4,4'-methylene dianiline(4,4'-MDA) and 4,4'-oxydianiline(4,4'-ODA), and dianhydride, 3,3', 4,4'-benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride (BTDA) using the solvent, dimethylacetamide(DMAc). These four PAAs were blended with poly[2,2-(m-phenylene)-5,5'-bibenzimidazole](PBI) from the solution blending. Then called as Blend-I, II, III, and IV, respectively. Cast films or precipitated powders of the PBI/PAA blends were cured at a higher temperature than expected Tg to transform into PBI/PIs blends. Miscibility, specific intermolecular interaction for miscibility and their relative strength as a function of polyimide chemical structure with different four diamines in the PBI/PI systems were investigated. Four blends used in this study were all miscible, and the specific intermolecular interactions existing in these blends was thought to be the hydrogen bonding between the N-H of PBI and the C=O of PIs. The hydrogen bonding in the blends were shown to be stronger in the Blend-III and Blend-IV than Blend-I and II. It is speculated that the differences of hydrogen bonding strength of PBI/PI blends are dependent upon chemical structures of PIs, that is, PIs consisting of $SO_2$ group have a weaker hydrogen bonding strength than those of O or $CH_2$ group because the former has a larger spacer than the latter.