Role of the Soft and Hard Segments Structure in Modifying the Performance of Acrylic Adhesives Modified by Polyurethane Macromonomers.

Acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives, modified by polyurethane (PU), achieve selective optimization through the designability of polyurethanes. In this paper, PU macromonomers were prepared by a two-step synthesis method, using polypropylene glycol or polyethylene glycol with different molecular weights as soft segments and different types of diisocyanates: isophorone diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, dicyclohexylmethylmethane diisocyanate (HMDI), 2,4-toluene diisocyanate (TDI), and 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and chain extenders as hard segments. After being terminated by capping agents, a series of PU macromonomers of different molecular weights and structures were obtained and used to modify the acrylic base adhesives.