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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 8-14.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2015.04.002

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Preparation and Characterization of Phenolic Foams Modified by Castor Oil-based Polyurethane Prepolymer

BO Cai-ying1, HU Li-hong1,2, ZHOU Jing1, ZHOU Yong-hong1   

  1. 1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF;National Engineering Lab.for Biomass Chemical Utilization;Key and Open Lab.of Forest Chemical Engineering, SFA;Key Lab. of Biomass Energy and Material, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210042, China;
    2. Research Institute of Forestry New Technology, CAF, Beijing 100091, China
  • Received:2014-08-19 Online:2015-08-25 Published:2015-08-29

Abstract: Castor oil-based polyurethane prepolymer(COPUP) was prepared through the reaction of castor oil(CTO) with 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate(HDI), then COPUP was used to modify phenolic foams(PFs). The structure of COPUP was confirmed by FT-IR and 1H NMR. Morphological properties, mechanical properties and thermal stability of the copup-filled PFs were assessed by SEM, universal test and thermogravimetric analysis(TGA). The cell shapes of the COPUP-filled PFs were approximately symmetrical, but the cell sizes were larger than that of pristine PF. Especially, when the cell sizes of PF modified with 10 % COPUP, it became obviously heterogeneous and the bubbles collapse. Compared with that of pristine PFs, the flexural strength of PFs filled with 3%-7% COPUP increased about 21.05%-26.32%; and the corresponding specific flexural strength ranged from 5.90 to 6.17 (kN·m)/kg, which were significantly higher than that of the pristine PFs, 4.96(kN·m)/kg. The addition of COPUP caused the decrease of the thermal stability of PFs.

Key words: phenolic foams, polyurethane prepolymer, structure, mechanical properties, thermal stability

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