AbstractMeasurements were made of the thermal and dynamic mechanical properties of 22 polyurethaneureas of varying diol molecular weight, type of aromatic chain extender, diol molecular weight distribution, and chain extender stoichiometry. The dynamic mechanical data, obtained as a function of temperature and frequency (in the kHz region), were used to construct master curves of shear modulus and loss factor over a wide range of reduced frequencies. Based on these master curves, interpreted in conjunction with the thermal analysis results, it was found that: Soft segment crystallization occurs at the higher diol molecular weights, dynamic mechanical properties are well correlated with the soft segment glass transition, diol molecular weight influences dynamic mechanical properties by affecting the degree of phase separation and hence glass transition temperature, and neither diol molecular weight distribution nor chain extender stoichiometry have a significant effect, in the ranges studied, on transition temperatures or dynamic mechanical properties.
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