The New Approach to Preparing Liquid Polysulfide: Choosing Glutaraldehyde or 1, 2, 3 trichloro propane as cross-linkers

The New Approach to Preparing Liquid Polysulfide: Choosing Glutaraldehyde or 1, 2, 3 trichloro propane as cross-linkers | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article The New Approach to Preparing Liquid Polysulfide: Choosing Glutaraldehyde or 1, 2, 3 trichloro propane as cross-linkers Jaber Mirzaei, Masoud Khoshnood This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6744530/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 15 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract This research used a new approach to synthesize liquid polysulfide (LP). Poly (bis-2 dichloro ethyl tetra sulfide) was prepared via interfacial suspension reaction of bis-2 dichloro ethyl formal with sodium tetra sulfide (Na2S4) in the presence of glutaraldehyde (GLH) as a safer cross-linker instead of commercial 1, 2, 3 tri chloro propane (TCP). Also, the organic monomer (bis 2-dichloro ethyl formal) was prepared via a reaction of ethylene chlorohydrin and paraformaldehyde. The organic monomer was characterized by FTIR and GC-MS techniques. After that, the synthesized polysulfides were characterized using FTIR, DSC, viscometry, T-peel test, tensile test, and hardness. We found that using GLH compared with TCP to cured polysulfide formulation, improved tensile elongation, and T-peel strength, had no inferior effect on hardness, and reduced by a small amount in tensile modulus, and tensile strength glutaraldehyde 1 2 3 trichloro propane polysulfide cross-linker liquid polysulfide Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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