High temperature polyimide blends

Abstract

In a continuing effort to synthesize polymers that are readily processable and that exhibit state-of-the-art characteristics, LARC-TPI (Mitsui) and polyimidesulfone (PISO2) were blended and subjected to a limited melt flow and thermal properties characterization. Mitsui Toatsu of Japan, working under a licensing agreement with NASA, synthesized an imidized version of LARC-TPI molding powder that exhibited an extraordinarily high level of softening when heated to 300 C. Subsequently, a study of the calorimetric and rheological properties was accomplished by NASA-Langley on that material. The thermoplastic polyimidesulfone that possesses processability similar to polysulfones and the solvent resistance of the polyimides was synthesized and characterized at NASA-Langley in the early 1980's.