Synthesis, characterisation, and chemical degradation of segmented polyurethanes with butylamine for chemical recycling

Abstract Polyurethane elastomers (PU) have been synthesized from polytetramethylene glycol 2000 (PTMG 2000); 4, 4′‐diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and 1, 4‐butanediol (BD) as chain extender. This synthesis has been done in two steps known as prepolymer methods. The concentration of soft segments and hydrogen attachment in the matrices, have been studied. The results show that the glass transition of the soft segment Tg(s) do not take any changes with the concentration of the soft segment in the matrices. Although, the glass transition temperature of the hard segment Tg(H) increases when the concentration of the hard segment increases in the matrices. In general, the properties of the polyurethane elastomers depend on the extenders nature, the synthesis methods, phase segregation etc. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2007