Bio-Based Thermosetting Copolymers of Eugenol and Tung Oil Harris Handoko Iowa State University
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Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2014 Bio-based thermosetting copolymers of eugenol and tung oil Harris Handoko Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Mechanics of Materials Commons, and the Polymer Chemistry Commons Recommended Citation Handoko, Harris, "Bio-based thermosetting copolymers of eugenol and tung oil" (2014). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13757. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13757 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bio-based thermosetting copolymers of eugenol and tung oil by Harris Handoko A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Major: Material Science and Engineering Program of Study Committee: Samy Madbouly, Co-Major Professor Lawrence Genalo, Co-Major Professor Xiaoli Tan David Grewell Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2014 Copyright © Harris Handoko, 2014. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS………………………………………………………………...... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………………..… vi ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………………………..... vii CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND INFORMATION 1.1 Thesis Organization……………………………………………………………….. 1 1.2 Petroleum crisis as the premise ………………………………………………….. 1 1.3 Renewable Monomers ………………………………………………………..…… 2 1.4 Monomers from Lignin………….……………………………………………...…. 3 1.5 Monomers from Vegetable Oils………………………………………………....… 8 1.6 Eugenol……………………………………………………………………….…… 10 1.7 Tung oil……………………………………………………………………….…… 11 1.8 Project motivation…………………………………………………………….…… 13 CHAPTER 2: BIO-BASED THERMOSETTING COPOLYMERS OF EUGENOL AND TUNG OIL 2.1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 15 2.2 Experimental…………………………………………………………………......... 19 2.2.1 Materials………………………………………………….……………… 19 2.2.2 Synthesis of Methacrylated Eugenol (ME)……………………………… 20 2.2.3 1H-NMR characterization of eugenol and synthesized ME……………… 22 2.2.4 Rheology of uncured ME and ME:TO resin ……………………………. 22 2.2.5 Cure Characterization of eugenol and ME using DSC ………………… 23 2.2.6 Curing of ME and ME:TO thermosets…………………………………... 23 2.2.7 Soxhlet extraction ……………………………………………………….. 24 2.2.8 Mechanical and thermal characterization ……………………………….. 24 2.3 Results and Discussion…………………………………………………………….. 25 2.3.1 Physical appearance of synthesized ME………………………………… 25 2.3.2 1H-NMR characterization of synthesized ME ……………………….…. 25 2.3.3 Rheological data of uncured resins……………………………………… 28 2.3.4 DSC of uncured resins…………………………………………………… 30 2.3.5 Cured ME and ME:TO thermosets……………………………………… 32 2.3.6 Soxhlet Extraction……………………………………………………….. 34 2.3.7 DSC of cured ME and ME:TO thermosets……………………………… 35 2.3.8 Instron Flexural Test Data……………………………………………….. 36 2.3.9 Instron Tensile Test Data………………………………………………… 39 2.3.10 SEM Data ………………………………………………………………. 42 2.3.11 DMA Flexural Test Data …………………………………….………… 44 2.3.12 DMA Tensile Test Data …………………………………………….… 47 2.3.13 TGA Data…………………………………………………………….…. 49 2.3.14 Conclusions……………………………………………………….…… 52 iii CHAPTER 3: CONCLUSION 3.1 Summary …………………………………………………………………….…….. 54 3.2 Future work………………………………………………………………………… 55 REFERENCES………………………………………………………………………………… 57 iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED 1H-NMR Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance AESO Acrylated Epoxidized Soybean Oil DMA Dynamic Mechanical Analysis DMAP 4-(Dimethylamino)pyridine DMSO-d6 Deuterated Dimethyl Sulfoxide DSC Differential Scanning Calorimetry (or Calorimeter) DVB Divinyl Benzene FRP Fiber-reinforced polymers GPC Gel Permeation Chromatography LMC Lignin Model Compounds MA Methacrylic Anhydride ME Methacrylated / Modified Eugenol ME:TO Blend of Methacrylated Eugenol (ME) and Tung Oil (TO) MEKP Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide (or 2-Butonane peroxide) N2 Nitrogen Gas NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance PE Polyethyelene PS Polystyrene PVC Poly(vinyl chloride) v SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy SO Soybean Oil ST Styrene TBPB Tert-butyl Peroxybenzoate (Luperox© P) TBPO Tert-butyl Peroxide Tg Glass Transition Temperature TGA Thermogravimetric Analysis TO Tung Oil VOC Volatile Organic Compounds vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Over the course of my research project, I have received countless support from many of my peers, including those that have offered me the opportunity and resources to complete my program of study. Firstly, I would like offer my sincere thanks to Dr. Michael Kessler for allowing me to participate in the polycomp research group. Secondly, I would like thank Dr. Samy Madbouly and Dr. Genalo Lawrence for taking the role as my co-major professors. Thirdly, I really appreciate Dr. Xiaoli Tan and Dr. David Grewell for taking time out of their extremely busy schedules to sit in my defense committee. Without forgetting my colleagues that have given me tremendous assistance, I wish to show my gratitude towards Dr. Mahendra Thunga, who has served as my mentor in my research for two years. I am grateful to my friends and colleagues at polycomp, namely Kunwei Liu, who had assisted me in doing Soxhlet Extraction, Rui Ding, Chaoqun Zhang, Danny Vennerberg and Gauri Ramasubramanian for their valuable technical advice. Last but not least, I wish to thank my parents who had given me the opportunity and to pursue this expensive education. vii ABSTRACT There has been an increasing demand for novel synthetic polymers made of components derived from renewable sources to cope with the depletion of petroleum sources. In fact, monomers derived vegetable oils and plant sources have shown promising results in forming polymers with good properties. The following is a study of two highly viable renewable sources, eugenol and tung oil (TO) to be copolymerized into fully bio-based thermosets. Polymerization of eugenol required initial methacrylate-functionalization through Steglich esterification and the synthesized methacrylated eugenol (ME) was confirmed by 1H-NMR. Rheological studies showed ideal Newtonian behavior in ME and five other blended ME resins containing 10 – 50 wt% TO. Free-radical copolymerization using 5 mol% of tert-butyl peroxybenzoate (crosslinking catalyst) and curing at elevated temperatures (90 – 160 °C) formed a series of soft to rigid highly-crosslinked thermosets. Crosslinked material (89 – 98 %) in the thermosets were determined by Soxhlet extraction to decrease with increase of TO content (0 – 30%). Thermosets containing 0 – 30 wt% TO possessed ultimate flexural (3-point bending) strength of 32.2 – 97.2 MPa and flexural moduli of 0.6 – 3.5 GPa, with 3.2 – 8.8 % strain-to-failure ratio. Those containing 10 – 40 wt% TO exhibited ultimate tensile strength of 3.3 – 45.0 MPa and tensile moduli of 0.02 GPa to 1.12 GPa, with 8.5 – 76.7 % strain-to-failure ratio. Glass transition temperatures ranged from 52 – 152 °C as determined by DMA in 3-point bending. SEM analysis on fractured tensile test specimens detected a small degree of heterogeneity. All the thermosets are thermally stable up to approximately 300 °C based on 5% weight loss. 1 CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND INFORMATION 1.1 Thesis Organization The general theme behind this thesis is to contribute to the pool of research surrounding the creation of new polymers using components that are derived from natural sources. By using the premise of the eminent petroleum crisis affecting future production of plastics, this thesis begins the discussion of the two well-documented ways of obtaining renewable monomers, namely natural polymers and vegetable oils, with emphasis on the latter. Chapter 2 details the functionalization of eugenol to form a methacrylated-derivative to copolymerize with Tung oil. The resulting polymers were examined for its mechanical and dynamic capabilities, including its response to thermal degradation. Finally, chapter 3 reviews all parts of the project and discusses issues with it that were not addressed in the previous chapter. 1.2 Petroleum crisis as the premise The technological advances over the last few decades have witnessed the steady growth and success in the development of polymers. Where metals rule in high-strength performance, polymers, which are light and cheaply mass-producible, have also come far in terms of their mechanical capabilities—a fact that is demonstrated through their increasing versatility over a wide range of applications. The depleting global petroleum and crude oil reserves, however, remains to be one of the greatest concerns plaguing every society. While the continued rise of petroleum prices has the most major impact on the transportation sector, this will eventually also become a crisis for the industrial manufacture of synthetic polymers which makes up a good chunk of the total petroleum consumption[1]. A significant amount of petroleum-based synthetic 2 polymer manufactured today, such as poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), polystyrene (PS), polyethylene (PE) goes into daily life applications (i.e. food packaging, containers, trash bags, etc) and structural components. One solution to prevent over reliance on petroleum could be plastic recycling. Although systems have been established in effort to reuse and recycle these thermoplastic polymers by melting and recasting, there are clearly limitations to the rate at which