A soybean based coating with thermally responsive Diels-Alder linkages has been prepared following an automotive 2-component formulation. The resulting coatings displayed the capability to be healed by a thermal stimulus after physical deformation. Various curing agents were employed, and resulted in variation of scratch resistance and re-healablity. Different thermally responsive soybean resins were synthesized to have varying amounts reversible and nonreversible linkages when incorporated into the coating.  It was found through the analysis of rehealabilty, hardness, gloss, and adhesion that the optimal combination was an acetylated resin (no irreversible crosslinks) with 54% reversible Diels Alder linkages at an NCO:OH ratio of 5:1 using isophorone diiscocyanate. Materials were evaluated via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scratch resistance, Koenig hardness, gloss measurements, and topographical analysis.

Synthesis and evaluation of thermally-responsive coatings based upon Diels-Alder chemistry and renewable materials

249th National Meeting (2015)

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