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Evaluation of carbonization tar in making high performance polyacrylonitrile‐based carbon fibers
Author(s) -
Wang YanXiang,
Wang Qiang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.25754
Subject(s) - polyacrylonitrile , carbonization , trimer , materials science , acrylonitrile , ultimate tensile strength , polymer , chemical engineering , decomposition , polymer chemistry , composite material , copolymer , organic chemistry , chemistry , dimer , scanning electron microscope , engineering
The polyacrylonitrile carbonization tar is discussed in detail by using gas chromatographic‐mass spectrometer and electron paramagnetic resonance. It is a viscous liquid that constitutes complicated condensed components resulting from polymer decomposition. It was demonstrated that the predominant products were acrylonitrile dimer and trimer species with trifle cyclohexane and cyclopentane. Moreover, the fragmentation course occurred in temperature range of 400–600°C and decomposed in 525°C most drastically. The formation of the tar could be regarded as random fragmentation of linear chain segments among ladder structures accompanying with secondary decomposition. After adjusting the middle temperature carbonization technology, depending on the components and formation of tar, the high performance carbon fibers were obtained that had tensile strength of 4.2–4.5 Gpa, elongation at break 1.7%–1.8%, modulus 235–240 Gpa. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 104: 1255–1259, 2007