Title:
Validating Poly(Benzoxazine) Networks Through Experimental Studies And Molecular Dynamic Simulations
Description:
The Poster Session will be available for browsing throughout CAMX, located in the exhibit hall lobby, across from registration. Winning entries will be announced at the Poster Sessions on Wednesday, September 11, at 1:00 pm and all entrants will be available at this time to answer questions about their research. Polybenzoxazine chemistry is an attractive alternative to traditional matrices used in the aerospace industry due to its high molecular design modularity, glass transition temperature, moduli, and thermal stability. With polybenzoxazines less studied than traditional chemistries such as epoxies and phenolics, the polymerization pathway and resulting network has not yet been fully elucidated. A series of difunctional benzoxazine monomers were synthesized, purified, and extensively characterized to gather chemical and structural information before the construction of representative polymer networks using molecular dynamic simulation techniques. Molecular modeling corroborated by experimental evaluations permits the visualization of these complex structures and provides valuable insight into time- and temperature-dependent properties. This work explores structure-property relationships using chemical, thermomechanical, and computational characterization techniques to aid in the construction of accurate simulated networks.
Type:
Poster Session