A facile strategy for synthesizing isosorbide-based polyurethane structural adhesives and core-shell rubber.

A structural adhesive series of biomass-based polyurethane (Biomass-PU) is synthesized using polypropylene glycol (PPG2000), isosorbide-based polyol (RPO300) as polyols, isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) as an isocyanate and 4-tert-butylphenol (BP) as a capping agent. Three different equivalent ratios of PPG2000/RPO300, 9/1 (Biomass-PU1), 7/3 (Biomass-PU2), and 1/1 (Biomass-PU3), are evaluated to determine the effect of isosorbide-based polyol content on the properties and the optimizing formulation of biomass-PU structure adhesive. The 9/1 ratio of PPG2000/RPO300 substantially leads to the improvement of impact strength by up to 35 MPa, and the PPG2000/RPO300 = 9/1 ratio exhibits better thermal properties and impact strength than those of other ratios. To achieve more compatibility between biomass-PU structure adhesive and core-shell rubber (CSR) toughener, novel CSRs are successfully synthesized using acryl-PU as a shell and biomass-based PU as a core. The chemical structure of biomass-PU structure adhesives is analyzed through FT-IR Spectroscopy and NCO% titration. Thermal properties are evaluated using TGA and DSC analysis. Their molecular weights are measured by GPC. Also, the core-shell rubber (CSR) with a polyurethane shell is prepared to reinforce the impact strength of Biomass-PU structure adhesive.