polymers Article Crosslinking Behavior of UV-Cured Polyorganosilazane as Polymer-Derived Ceramic Precursor in Ambient and Nitrogen Atmosphere Afnan Qazzazie-Hauser 1,* , Kirsten Honnef 1 and Thomas Hanemann 1,2,* 1 Laboratory for Materials Processing, Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany;
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[email protected] (T.H.); Tel.: +49-761-203-7556 (A.Q.-H.) Abstract: Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) based on silicon precursor represent an outstanding material for ceramic coatings thanks to their extraordinary versatile processibility. A promising example of a silicone precursor, polyorganosilazane (Durazane 1800), was studied concerning its crosslinking behavior by mixing it with three different photoinitiators, and curing it by two different UV-LED sources under both nitrogen and ambient atmosphere. The chemical conversion during polymerization and pyrolysis was monitored by FTIR spectroscopy. Pyrolysis was performed in a nitrogen atmosphere at 950 ◦C. The results demonstrate that polyorganosilazane can be cured by the energy-efficient UV-LED source at room temperature in nitrogen and ambient atmosphere. In nitrogen atmosphere, already common reactions for polysilazanes, including polyaddition of the Citation: Qazzazie-Hauser, A.; vinyl group, dehydrogenation reactions, hydrosilylation, and transamination reaction, are responsible Honnef, K.; Hanemann, T. for crosslinking. Meanwhile, in ambient atmosphere, hydrolysis and polycondensation reactions Crosslinking Behavior of UV-Cured occur next to the aforementioned reactions. In addition, the type of photoinitiator has an influence Polyorganosilazane as Polymer-Derived Ceramic Precursor on the conversion of the reactive bonds and the chemical composition of the resulting ceramic.