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An efficient ring-opening copolymerization of elemental sulfur with various olefinic compounds to produce thermoplastic polymeric sulfur: Synthesis and Characterization

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Polymer chemistry

Abstract

Inverse vulcanization reaction is a copolymerization process that involves the interaction of elemental sulfur with alkenes at high temperatures to yield highly distinctive materials having high percentage content of sulfur. In this study, new polymeric sulfur compounds were synthesized via inverse vulcanization reaction in which elemental sulfur interacts with two different types of materials including thermoplastic polymers like amorphous Poly Alfa-Olefin (APAO) copolymer, and Ethylene-vinyl-acetate copolymer (EVA), while the second kind was thermoplastic rubber like styrene-butadiene-styrene copolymer (SBS), and rubber waste from MAC Carpet. The reaction occurred at 180 oC in the presence of bitumen as dissolving media. The polymeric sulfur products were chemically characterized by FTIR and XRD. Changes in the morphology of surfaces were examined by SEM. Thermal stability was also examined through DSC and TGA. Finally, dynamic mechanical properties were investigated using DMA. The result approved that all prepared polymeric sulfur have high stiffness, and the polymeric sulfur based on alfa olefin, and SBS have higher storage modulus than EVA, and Mac waste materials. Also, glass transition temperatures Tg of prepared polymerics sulfur were around 58 °C to 63 °C that confirms their high thermal resistance. Consequently selected synthesized materials succeeded as good elasticators for sulfur polymerization.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.222372.8241

Keywords

Styrene-butadiene-styrene, olefins, Industrial waste materials, inverse vulcanization, Polymeric sulfur

Authors

First Name

Zeinab

Last Name

Abo-Shanab

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-

Affiliation

Petroleum apllications department, Egyptian petroleum Research Institute, Nasr city, EGYPT.

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zeinab_chemist@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0001-8457-4594

First Name

Amal

Last Name

Altalhi

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taif University

Email

amalaltalhi24@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Noh

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Benha University

Email

mohnoh2010@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

farag

MiddleName

abdelsayed

Affiliation

Egyptian petroleum research institute

Email

ahmedafm@yahoo.com

City

giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Mansour

MiddleName

S

Affiliation

Petroleum applications department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Naser City, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

ah_samy2012@yahoo.com

City

cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Elshafie

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Petroleum applications department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt.

Email

mohamedepri@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Usama

Last Name

Kandil

MiddleName

Farid Mahmoud

Affiliation

Petroleum Applications Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Email

alfa_olefins@yahoo.com

City

Nasr City, Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-2918-8444

First Name

Eslam

Last Name

Azmy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of petroleum applications

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eslamepri@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0001-6919-7866

Volume

66

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

43707

Issue Date

2023-12-01

Receive Date

2023-07-11

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

1,967

Page End

1,976

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_312876.html

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312,876

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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An efficient ring-opening copolymerization of elemental sulfur with various olefinic compounds to produce thermoplastic polymeric sulfur: Synthesis and Characterization

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30 Dec 2024